76: Reconstruction (Part 4): The Battle of Liberty Place and the Mississippi Plan

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🗓️ 26 October 2020

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“Hang Kellogg! We’ll fight!” This is the story of the end of Reconstruction. Voter fraud and intimidation has made Louisiana’s 1872 Gubernatorial election a mess. So, when a Federal judge and Republican President Ulysses S. Grant uphold the Republican candidate, the stage is set for more partisan and racial violence in the Bayou State. The outcome is Reconstruction’s worst episode of violence and murder (the Colfax Massacre), and a full-on street battle in New Orleans between the paramilitary White League and the racially integrated state and municipal police (the Battle of Liberty Place). Meanwhile, Democrats have grown sick of what they see as Federal overreach imposing Republican policies to rule over them. Starting in Mississippi, they come up with a new plan to disenfranchise Republicans in order to reestablish “home rule.” But will the federal government allow this to happen? With Ulyss leaving the White House, the 1876 presidential election’s voter fraud and backroom dealings create a compromise that ensures Republicans retain the presidency, while Democrats regain control of the South. Reconstruction is over. Welcome to the era of Jim Crow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.0	It's 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Monday, September 14, 1874.
0:44.2	Countless men are working as fast as they can to build barricades in New Orleans downtown
0:48.5	at French Quarter. They grab anything they can get their hands on.
0:52.5	Farrows filled with iron, lumber, freight from the Mississippi waterfront.
0:57.7	They're even commandeering and toppling forced-drawn street cars, and in some cases,
1:02.4	pulling up the pavement before them to create a trench any opposing force would have to descend
1:07.0	into before attacking. Along Poijro Street, these barricades are quickly coming to occupy nearly
1:13.0	every intersection between the riverfront and St. Charles Street near Lafayette Square.
1:17.7	Six are so blocks to the west. More can be found just a couple of blocks to
1:22.2	the north, dotting the wide west east running thoroughfare that is Canal Street.
1:27.9	And as the barricades take shape, thousands of armed men intent upon overthrowing the state
1:33.0	government stand behind them. This is the white league.
1:41.7	Okay, time for a bit of brief background. Two years ago, the results of Louisiana's
1:46.9	gubernatorial election were muddied by voter fraud and intimidation. Both candidates claimed
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