Pembantaian Pemilu 1874: Perbedaan antara revisi

Di Eufaula, anggota Liga Putih membunuh sekitar 15-40 pemilih kulit hitam dan melukai 70 orang, serta mengusir lebih dari 1.000 orang kulit hitam tak bersenjata di tempat pemungutan suara. Dengan menyerang tempat pemungutan suara di [[Spring Hill, Barbour County, Alabama|Spring Hill]], Liga secara efektif membajak pemilu. Mereka memecat semua anggota Partai Republik dan kandidat dari Partai Demokrat mengambil mayoritas kursi untuk pemilihan.

 

 

Chapters spread to Alabama and other states in the Deep South. A similar paramilitary group was the [[Red Shirts (Southern United States)|Red Shirts]], which originated in Mississippi and became active in the Carolinas. Both paramilitary groups contributed to the Democrats' regaining control in the state legislatures in the late 1870s. The Red Shirts were still active in the 1890s and were implicated in the [[Wilmington Insurrection of 1898]] in North Carolina.<ref>[http://www.history.ncdcr.gov/1898-wrrc/report/Chapter3.pdf LeRae Umfleet, "Chapter 3: Practical Politics"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924030434/http://www.history.ncdcr.gov/1898-wrrc/report/Chapter3.pdf|date=2015-09-24}}, ''1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission Report'', North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources</ref> In the days leading up to the election, the commanding officer in Eufaula was expecting trouble but was ordered by the headquarters in Kentucky to stay away from the local officials over the polls and not interfere with the election under any circumstance. <ref>Wiggins, Sarah Woolfork. The Scalawag in Alabama Politics, 1865-1881. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991</ref>