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[The following takes place during the Reconstruction Era of the Antebellum South following the American Civil War.]

Ames shuddered at what had happened during one year of Alcorn’s tenure alone: by his count, thirty Negro schoolhouses and churches were burned down and sixty-three men killed. One of the very worst outbreaks of Klan violence occurred in 1871 in Meridian, where a large population of ex-slaves had formed a strong Loyal League. The Klan used the trial of three blacks for arson as an excuse for a rampage, opening fire in the courtroom and killing the Republican judge as well as several spectators, throwing one defendant from a roof and slashing the throat of another. Over three days they cut down “all the leading colored men of the town with one or two exceptions.” They left twenty-five black corpses in the street.


Source:

Jenkins, Sally, and John Stauffer. “Reconstruction and Redemption.” The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded from the Confederacy. Anchor Books, 2010. 260-61. Print.


Further Reading:

Adelbert Ames

James Lusk Alcorn

Ku Klux Klan / KKK / The Klan

[**The following takes place during the Reconstruction Era of the Antebellum South following the American Civil War.**] >[Ames](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Gen._Adelbert_Ames_-_NARA_-_527085.jpg) shuddered at what had happened during one year of [Alcorn](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/JLAlcorn.jpg)’s tenure alone: by his count, thirty Negro schoolhouses and churches were burned down and sixty-three men killed. One of the very worst outbreaks of Klan violence occurred in 1871 in Meridian, where a large population of ex-slaves had formed a strong Loyal League. The Klan used the trial of three blacks for arson as an excuse for a rampage, opening fire in the courtroom and killing the Republican judge as well as several spectators, throwing one defendant from a roof and slashing the throat of another. Over three days they cut down “all the leading colored men of the town with one or two exceptions.” They left twenty-five black corpses in the street. _________________________ **Source:** Jenkins, Sally, and John Stauffer. “Reconstruction and Redemption.” *The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded from the Confederacy*. Anchor Books, 2010. 260-61. Print. _________________________ **Further Reading:** [Adelbert Ames](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelbert_Ames) [James Lusk Alcorn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Alcorn) [Ku Klux Klan / KKK / The Klan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan)

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