USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The White League, also known as the White Man’s League, was a white paramilitary terrorist organization started in the Southern United States in 1874 to intimidate freedmen into not voting and prevent Republican Party political organizing.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the Colfax Massacre a group of white people attacked and killed a group of African Americans. The violence arose over a power struggle between white Southern Democrats and white Republicans and their Black supporters. The massacre took place in Colfax, Louisiana, on April 13, 1873.

Detailed explanation-3: -“The bloodiest single instance of racial carnage in the Reconstruction era, the Colfax massacre taught many lessons, including the lengths to which some opponents of Reconstruction would go to regain their accustomed authority, ” historian Eric Foner writes in Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877.

Detailed explanation-4: -They were a White Coalition, a political coalition in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era that followed the American Civil War. Redeemers were the Southern wing of the Democratic Party. They sought to regain their political power and enforce white supremacy.