White League facts for kids
Quick facts for kids White League |
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| White Man's League Participant in Reconstruction Era violence |
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White League and Ku Klux Klan alliance, in illustration, by Thomas Nast, in Harper's Weekly, October 24, 1874
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| Active | 1874–1876 |
| Ideology | White supremacy, Neo-Confederate, Anti-Reconstruction |
| Preceded by | Confederate army veterans |
| Succeeded by | State militias |
| Allies | Ku Klux Klan |
| Opponents | U.S. government, Northerners, African Americans, Carpetbaggers, Scalawags, Republican Party |
| Battles and wars | Coushatta massacre Battle of Liberty Place |
The White League, also known as the White Man's League, was a white paramilitary terrorist organization started in the Southern United States in 1874 to intimidate freedmen into not voting and prevent Republican Party political organizing. Its first chapter was formed in Grant Parish, Louisiana, and neighboring parishes and was made up of many of the Confederate veterans who had participated in the Colfax massacre in April 1873. Chapters were soon founded in New Orleans and other areas of the state.
Members of the White League were absorbed into the state militias and the National Guard.
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