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irisblue

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2. Eugene, this needs to be seen in GD. Some need a bit of eyeopening.

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Sat Jan 16, 2021, 09:49 PM

Jan 2021

I see this most definitely as a fact of the Reconstruction and the compromise election of 1876 and Rutherford Hayes election. As part of the 1876 compromise, Hayes pulled tbe Federal troops from the defeated South, leaving so much undefended. The historical echos seem obvious to (arm chair historian) me

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Wilmington 1898: When white supremacists overthrew a US government [View all] Eugene Jan 2021 OP

I just read this story last nite in the New York Review of Books jmbar2 Jan 2021 #1

Eugene, this needs to be seen in GD. Some need a bit of eyeopening. irisblue Jan 2021 #2

I posted about the book in your other thread. Could you please cross post littlemissmartypants Jan 2021 #3