Antebellum pro-slavery radicals spoke freely of secession and violence, Democratic Party paramilitaries planned their attacks on Reconstruction governments in public view, and the men who codified segregation into Jim Crow did so in the open.
Antebellum pro-slavery radicals spoke freely of secession and violence, Democratic Party paramilitaries planned their attacks on Reconstruction governments in public view, and the men who codified segregation into Jim Crow did so in the open.