From the 1880s through the 1960s, tens of thousands of blacks and poor whites were railroaded through the Southern justice system, resulting in countless executions and prison sentences in the brutal chain gang system of coerced labor. Many thousands of blacks were also murdered, very often after being removed from prison cells and then burned alive or hung at the hands of “Judge Lynch.” The white supremacist Ku Klux Klan, essentially the paramilitary wing of the Democratic Party, committed its crimes by night and behind masks. It was comprised of the “best citizens” and the same lawmen who terrorized by day under peaked caps.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 20:47:00 +0000
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