What Was The White League

Louisiana White League Platform (1874)

The White League was a paramilitary grouping responsible for widespread violence against black and white Republicans in Louisiana and Mississippi. The grouping's platform from 1874 is articulated here.

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The White League was a paramilitary grouping that was allied with the Autonomous Political party in the South. In 1874 and 1875, the White League was responsible for widespread violence against black and white Republicans in Louisiana and Mississippi. The group's platform from 1874 stated the following:

Disregarding all minor questions of principle or policy, and having solely in view the maintenance of our hereditary civilization and Christianity menaced by a stupid Africanization, we appeal to men of our race, of any language or nationality, to unite with us against that supreme danger. A league of whites is the inevitable result of that formidable, adjuration-bound, and blindly obedient league of the blacks, which, under the command of the about cunning and unscrupulous negroes in the Country, may at any moment plunge us into a state of war of races . . . Information technology is with some hope that a timely and proclaimed union of the whites as a race, and their efficient preparation for any emergency, may abort the threatened horrors of social war, and teach the blacks to beware of further insolence and aggression, that nosotros phone call upon the men of our race to leave in abeyance all lesser considerations; to forget all differences of opinions and all race prejudices of the past, and with no object in view but the common practiced of both races, to unite with u.s. in an earnest effort to re-establish a white man'south government in the urban center and the Country.¹

Facing History and Ourselves, "Louisiana White League Platform (1874)," last updated May 12, 2020.

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