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The White League, also known as the White Man's League, [2] [3] was a white supremacist paramilitary terrorist organization started in the Southern United States in 1874 to intimidate freedmen (emancipated Black former slaves) into not voting and prevent Republican Party political organizing, while also being supported by regional elements of the Democratic Party.
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The White League had formed in 1874 as an insurgent, white Democratic paramilitary group in Grant Parish and nearby parishes [2] on the Red River of the South in Louisiana.The League was founded by members of the white militia who had committed the Colfax Massacre in Louisiana in 1873, killing numerous black people in order to turn out Republicans from parish offices as part of the disputed ...
The Coushatta massacre (1874) was an attack by members of the White League, a white supremacist paramilitary organization composed of white Southern Democrats, on Republican officeholders and freedmen in Coushatta, the parish seat of Red River Parish, Louisiana. They assassinated six white Republicans and five to 20 freedmen who were witnesses ...
The White League's growth continued through the summer and fall, reaching its peak on September 14, with the Battle of Liberty Place, in which 5,000 armed White League troops defeated a smaller force of state militia and New Orleans Metropolitan Police and overthrew Republican Governor William Pitt Kellogg, installing John McEnery in his place.
founder of the white league Christopher Columbus Nash (July 1, 1838 – June 29, 1922) was a Louisiana merchant and Democratic sheriff . [ 1 ] In 1873, Nash led a company of white militiamen in the Colfax Massacre to take the courthouse in Colfax , from armed African-Americans . [ 2 ]
James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic.He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, (English: Afrikaner Resistance Movement) (AWB) is a South African far-right [3] secessionist political organisation. The AWB is committed to the creation of an independent Boer-Afrikaner republic or "Volkstaat/Boerestaat" in South Africa. [4] Blanke Bevrydingsbeweging (English: White Liberation Movement) (BBB).