Newsflash
Folks were lynched everywhere in every state
Guilty were lynched
Whites were lynched
And all this garbage about disenfranchisement
You live in a county in Mississippi thats 80% black in 1866 and you cant vote cause you fought for the South and now blacks are running things with their new masters the radical Republicans putting illiterate puppets in office
What would you have done....just roll over or move to California ...a lot did who could or would you fight back against the occupation
Freepers like things simple so they can shout platitudes and virtue signal free of charge
History is ugly and anything but simple.
But dont let that stop yall...lynching is bad...and so are Nazis....gotta get them in there
dead lynched white guys just for the record....
Thank you. Clarity. And proper identification of keyboard commando virtue signalling from chicken sh!t keyboard commando actor/movie history sourcing. Caulifloweronia fakirs.
It was rough times, brought on by rough people and not “reserved” misery for any race.
Like to balance these kinds of generalizations with the story of the Battle of Athens (1946) Veterans refusing to allow corruptocrats to steal an election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_%281946%29
All of my family except for one son left Alabama for Texas in 1866
you beat me to it. my post #21