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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 ...
In 1959, White edited and updated The Elements of Style. This handbook of grammatical and stylistic guidance for writers of American English was first written and published in 1918 by William Strunk Jr., one of White's professors at Cornell. White's reworking of the book was extremely well received, and later editions followed in 1972, 1979 ...
English language arts, which is the study of grammar, usage, and style. English sociolinguistics, including discourse analysis of written and spoken texts in the English language, the history of the English language, English language learning and teaching, and the study of World of English. English linguistics (syntax, morphology, phonetics ...
The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters was formed from three parent organizations. The first, the American Social Science Association, was founded in 1865 in Boston. The second was the National Institute of Arts and Letters, which ASSA's membership created in 1898. The qualification for membership in the NIAL was notable ...
White Rage became a New York Times Best Seller, [5] and was listed as a notable book of 2016 by The New York Times, [6] The Washington Post, [7] The Boston Globe, [8] and the Chicago Review of Books. [9] White Rage was also listed by The New York Times as an Editors' Choice, [10] and won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism ...