Posted in 14th Amendment Ku Klux Klan U.S. Grant White Supremacy White Terror

October 17, 1871 Pres. Grant Suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus in Part of South Carolina

On October 17, 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant suspended Habeas Corpus in nine counties in South Carolina. Over the previous year the Ku Klux Klan…

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The Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, South Carolina Added to Reconstruction Era National Historic Network

The Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, South Carolina has been added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. The school was important in…

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Posted in USCT Veterans

Beaufort, South Carolina Grand Army Hall Restoration Completed

The Grand Army of the Republic Hall in Beaufort, South Carolina, was recently restored and was rededicated several weeks ago. The hall is located at…

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Posted in Memory of Reconstruction Monuments Places to Visit

Nine New Sites Added to Reconstruction Era National Network by National Park Service

Nine new sites have been added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network by the National Park Service (NPS). Here is the NPS description of…

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Posted in Memory of Reconstruction Places to Visit

Hamburg Massacre Commemorated This Weekend in South Carolina

The 1876 Hamburg Massacre of African Americans was long-ignored by South Carolina’s educators and museums who rewrote history to maintain White Supremacy. This weekend the…

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Historic Brattonsville in York County SC Now Tells Important Reconstruction Klan Story

Historic Brattonsville in York County, South Carolina, has created a new exhibit on the Reconstruction Era at Brick House on the old plantation’s property. South…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction

One Product of Reconstruction: The First Black Cemetery in Columbia S.C. Celebrates 150th Anniversary

Last Saturday, May 21, Columbia, South Carolina celebrated the 150th Anniversary of Randolph Cemetery. This was the first cemetery for African Americans in the city…

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Four Sites Added to NPS Reconstruction Era National Historic Network

The Reconstruction Era National Historical Park announced the addition of four new sites to its Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. Here is the announcement from…

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Posted in Black Officeholders USCT

The Man Who Was a Confederate, in the USCT, and Whose Enrollment in College Led to the Departure of Many Students

The Washington Post has an interesting article on a Black man who passed for white and who became a powerful post-war political figure during Reconstruction….

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A South Carolina Lady on the Death of the Confederacy: “Our slain heroes cried out against such an end”

Emma Holmes was a twenty-two year old woman when the Civil War began. The scion of a well-connected Charleston family, she had rejoiced when the…

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