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re: PSA: Interesting podcast on NOLA history

Posted on 7/28/22 at 3:38 pm to
Posted by dgnx6
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 7/28/22 at 3:38 pm to
Going down this rabbit hole on the lynchings.


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In 1896 RDO lent its support to the reelection of Governor Murphy J. Foster in order to stop a biracial alliance between the Republican Party and the Populists behind the candidacy of John N. Pharr. After an election characterized by fraud so widespread that the actual results may never be known, Foster maneuvered to rewrite the state constitution so as to disfranchise most black voters, related to similar actions by Mississippi and other former Confederate states through 1910. This resulted in several decades in which Louisiana and other states were effectively controlled by one political party, and blacks were closed out of the political process. Nomination by the white-controlled Democratic Party of the state or winning its primary was all that was tantamount to election.[


Damn democrats.
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