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Reconstruction In Kemper County, Mississippi, Michael Brian Connolly Jul 1989

Reconstruction In Kemper County, Mississippi, Michael Brian Connolly

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Blacks were the passive victims in Kemper County, Mississippi, the scene of violence and murder in Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan, the Order of '76, and a continuing animosity between scalawag Radical Republicans and white-line Democrats were instrumental in perpetuating a frontier atmosphere wherein the pistol and Bowie knife were commonplace. Shooting or killing was an acceptable method of settling one's differences with another. Freedom and new rights for the majority black population of the county and seven years of Radical rule in the county provoked night-riding violence, murder and finally, the Mississippi Plan, successful revolution at the ballot box …


A Study Of The Causes Of The Negro Migration Of 1922-1923 From Rural Georgia To Northern Cities, Ali Jalal Abed Apr 1973

A Study Of The Causes Of The Negro Migration Of 1922-1923 From Rural Georgia To Northern Cities, Ali Jalal Abed

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Negroes' Freedom Of Contract In Antebellum Virginia, 1620 - 1860, Edward H. Bonekemper Iii Jan 1971

Negroes' Freedom Of Contract In Antebellum Virginia, 1620 - 1860, Edward H. Bonekemper Iii

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