Battle of Liberty Place: White League Stages Armed Coup Against Louisiana Government
The White League stages an armed insurrection against Louisiana’s Reconstruction government on September 14, 1874, in New Orleans. Five thousand White League members—Confederate veterans organized as “the military arm of the Democratic Party”—overwhelm 3,500 state police and …
White League
James Longstreet
William Pitt Kellogg
Ulysses S. Grant
John McEnery
white-supremacy
reconstruction-sabotage
political-violence
institutional-capture
elite-impunity
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