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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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