Preview: Conversation with the author Robert Cwiklik re the extreme rebellion in Louisiana following the election of 1872, the Colfax Massacre of 1873 and the corrupted trial of the killers -- and the violence of the so-called White League. More tonight.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 4 October 2024
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1879 NEW ORLEANS
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Bachelor, conversation with Robert Swicklich, his new book shared in secret mission |
| 0:06.7 | how the South won the war after the Civil War. |
| 0:10.1 | South turned against the resolution of the North to permit voting from the freedmen |
| 0:18.0 | and the veterans of the Union Army in the South. |
| 0:22.0 | In New Orleans, that led to eventually something called the White League |
| 0:26.8 | rising, becoming not just the clan, but a violent military organization that attacked more than the freedmen and |
| 0:37.0 | attacked the union troops that attacked people representing grants administration in federal government. |
| 0:45.6 | Here Bob Sirclick explains the run up to Mrs. Following the Colfax massacre, the run up to open violence in New Orleans between a faction representing the law led |
| 0:57.4 | by Sheridan and that representing Louisiana led by a variety of lawless men. |
| 1:06.0 | More of this later. |
| 1:08.2 | They indeed opened fire on Long Street |
| 1:11.6 | and the metropolitan Police Force, which was part of the Louisiana State |
| 1:16.6 | militia. |
| 1:18.3 | And not only was the Preston City White League involved in that but there were thousands of White |
| 1:24.7 | Leagueers from across the state there were various chapters of the White League |
| 1:29.8 | across the state. |
| 1:30.8 | 8300 is the number you give and 83 is an army in other words it's a it's an |
| 1:36.5 | another rebellion and the White House hears about it and therein lies the next step |
| 1:41.7 | in the tail |
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