[RECONSTRUCTION - DISENFRANCHISEMENT]. A pair of pamphlets combatting Black disenfranchisement, comprising:

Our Colored Citizens. How They Have Been Officially Recognized Both in War and Peace by the Republican Party. N.p.: N.p., ca 1899.

8vo. Illustrated with a political cartoon depicting Senator Benjamin Tillman and a personification of the Ku Klux Klan in their role in Black disenfranchisement. (Minor toning). Original wrappers.

FIRST EDITION pro-Republican pamphlet outlining how the party has supported African Americans and the current threat of disenfranchisement.

[With:] CAMPBELL, Hugh J. The White League Conspiracy Against Free Government. [New Orleans]: N.p., 1875.

8vo. (Small tear at upper edge.) Original yellow wrappers (light soiling, small tears to rear wrapper).

FIRST EDITION printing of a speech detailing the violence perpetrated by the White League, a terrorist paramilitary group formed in Louisiana in 1874 to intimidate Black voters and sow disruption in the Republican party.

Collection of Tom Charles Huston

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[RECONSTRUCTION - DISENFRANCHISEMENT]. A pair of pamphlets combatting Black disenfranchisement, comprising:

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