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How an 1876 massacre of Black men in South Carolina turned racial terror into political power

How an 1876 massacre of Black men in South Carolina turned racial terror into political power
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The Conversation reports that the 1876 Hamburg massacre in South Carolina used white supremacist terror to destroy Reconstruction, suppress Black voters, and reshape American politics.

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