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Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America by Michael Megelsh

Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America by Michael Megelsh published by Kent State University Press (2024) is an interesting biography…

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Posted in Ku Klux Klan White Supremacy White Supremacy Apologetics White Terror

Platform of the Ku Klux Klan Mississippi “A Government of White Men For White Men” March 1868

Here is a Mississippi paper’s publication of the platform of the KKK which focuses on the disenfranchisement of blacks. Many white conservative newspapers published Klan…

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Sixty Years After the Civil War, Mississippi Legislators Were Still Trying to Expel Blacks

The Washington Post has an article today on the vote by the Mississippi legislature to create a colony in Africa where its Black population could…

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Posted in Redeemers White Supremacy White Terror

New Historical Marker at Site of Mississippi’s 1875 Clinton Massacre

On Thursday a new marker was unveiled commemorating the 1875 Clinton Massacre in Mississippi. In 1875 forces in Mississippi hoping for the restoration of white…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Black Officeholders White Supremacy

Eric Foner in the New York Times on the 150th Anniversary of the Election of the First Black Senator Hiram Revels

Eric Foner has an interesting article in the New York Times today observing the 150th Anniversary of the election of the first African American to…

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Were the Ku Klux Ghosts of Confederate Soldiers? Mississippi 1868

This article announces the arrival of the KKK in Grenada, Miss. through the mockery of a black preacher. In the article “Uncle Ike” (older African…

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Mississippi Republicans Demand Racial Equality in 1869 Party Platform

When the Mississippi Republican Party met in July 1869 to consider its new platform, it was one of the first political party conventions in American…

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