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Month: July 2016

When ‘Taking Our Country Back’ Led to a Massacre

Posted on July 30, 2016 · Leave a comment

by Calvin Schermerhorn On July 30, 1866, “taking our country back” left our country bloodied and scarred in a now-forgotten event called the New Orleans Massacre. One of Reconstruction’s deadliest days started over the refusal to accept civil rights as a verdict of the Civil War and, more broadly, because whites left behind tried to […]

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