Political and racial violence in the Reconstruction Era South was a factor in setting Southerners, Black and white, into motion as refugees. Ku Klux attacks that claimed the lives of a few might set scores of people fleeing as refugees from their homes. Often vulnerable people in the countryside would “refugee” to cities where the United States Army maintained garrisons that could provide them with protection. This is a report on just one refugee flow in Georgia.
New-York Daily Tribune
Thursday, May 13, 1869
New York, NY
Vol: 29
Page: 2
