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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: April 27th 1874 Democrats created the White League terrorist organization
Democrat devilry. , Louisiana Democrats created a
terrorist organization called the White League, also called the White
Man's League. Their first leader, Christopher Nash, was a county sheriff
and Confederate veteran.
Red Shirts, Knights
of the White Camellia, Klansmen – they shared its white supremacist
ideology. In contrast to the Ku Klux Klan, the White League operated
openly. They held rallies and publicly vowed to "teach the blacks to
beware of further insolence...in an earnest effort to re-establish a
white man's government in the city and the State."
White
League thugs targeted white Republicans as well as African-Americans.
Murder victims included six GOP officials and a teenage African-American
teacher.September 1874, a White League mob defeated the New Orleans police in a
bloody battle. President Grant deploying federal troops prevented
overthrow of the state government. https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Christoph
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