On this day, September 14, in 1874
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8,000 members of the White League in Louisiana fought 4,000 members of the black militia in a conflict known as the Battle of Liberty Place. The White League, a white supremacist group, quickly overpowered the militia and temporarily seized control of the state in an effort to halt the growing racial equality movement. The battle was part of the white population’s ongoing backlash against Reconstruction era policies, which had begun with the end of the Civil War ten years earlier. Over the following years, racial tensions grew as white supremacist organizations intensified their assault on progressive blacks and whites.
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