History of the United States II / Unit 1 USH2 0025 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Redeemers
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The idea
Southern White Democrats who called themselves Redeemers set out to redeem their states from northern control and restore the old racial order.
In practice
Redeemers taking power in Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia by eighteen seventy-one.
Where people slip
Redeem was their own word. Digital History says the Redeemers had no scruples about fraud or terror.
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