White League

White League
White League
White Man's League
	White League and Ku Klux Klan alliance, in illustration, by Thomas Nast, in Harper's Weekly, October 24, 1874
Dates of operation	1874–1876
Ideology	White supremacy, Neo-Confederate, Anti-Reconstruction
Allies	Ku Klux Klan
Opponents	U.S. government, Northerners, African Americans, Carpetbaggers, Scalawags, Republican Party
Battles and wars	Coushatta massacre; Battle of Liberty Place
	Preceded by; Confederate army veterans Succeeded by; State militias

The White League, also known as the White Man's League,^[2]^[3] was a white supremacist paramilitary terrorist organization started in the Southern United States in 1874 to intimidate freedmen into not voting and prevent Republican Party political organizing, while also being supported by regional elements of the Democratic Party. Its first chapter was formed in Grant Parish, Louisiana, and neighboring parishes and was made up of many of the Confederate veterans who had participated in the Colfax massacre in April 1873. Chapters were soon founded in New Orleans and other areas of the state.

Members of the White League were absorbed into the state militias and the National Guard.^[4]

^ Nast, Thomas (27 July 1874). "The Union as it was: The lost cause, worse than slavery" – via catalog.loc.gov Library Catalog.
^ "Halt!" "This is not the way 'to repress corruption and to initiate the Negroes into the ways of honest and orderly government.'". 1874. LCCN 2004678774.
^ "Louisiana and the Rule of Terror". The Elevator. Vol. 10, no. 26. October 10, 1874. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
^ Hogue, James K. (June 2006). The 1873 Battle of Colfax: Para-militarism and Counterrevolution in Louisiana. p. 21.