Charles Lane
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“Once the war was over, they reorganized the Democratic Party and announced in their 1865 platform, “We hold this to be a Government of white people, made and to be perpetuated for the exclusive benefit of the white race, and … that people of African descent cannot be considered as citizens of the United States, and that there can, in no event, nor under any circumstances, be any equality between white and other races.”
― The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
― The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
“On May 31, 1870, invoking the new amendments as authority, Congress passed the Enforcement Act, which made racist terrorism a federal offense. To help put it into effect, Grant and Congress created the Department of Justice, with authority over all federal civil and criminal cases.”
― The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
― The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
“The Republican Congress shelved a civil rights bill, and, in May 1872, it enacted an amnesty law that restored full political rights to the vast majority of ex-Confederates who had been barred from office under a special provision of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
― The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
― The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
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