LAYING THE CORNER STONE AT VICKSBURG, by James

LAYING THE CORNER STONE AT VICKSBURG, by James Albert Wales, 1875. Cartoon shows a White League man, laying a cornerstone labeled extermination of the negroes, (2019 digital manipulation: NEGROES replaced the original offensive term), in front of crowd of skeletons flying a banner reading resuscitated democracy, with a State capitol building in background flying a flag of the Confederate States of America. The White Mans League, was paramilitary terrorist organization founded in 1874 to Redeem the South from Radical Republican Congressional Reconstruction and strip freedmen of all social and political power

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13124895

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45373132

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2053px x 3000px (1.6MB)

Credit

Mary Evans / The Everett Collection

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Courtesy Everett Collection