The White League 1874 White Supremacy group info

Question 1

When did the White League form?

Answer 1

1874

Question 2

How was the White League formed?

Answer 2

-group of Confederate veterans in Louisiana formed it

Question 3

What were the members like?

Answer 3

-led by veteran Confederate officers->the league in the metropolis attracted considerable support from the rising generation of native-born white men who had been too young to fight in the Civil War->wanted to reclaim political control over Louisiana

Question 4

What were their beliefs?

Answer 4

-described themselves as defenders of a ‘hereditary civilisation and Christianity’
-their stated purpose was ‘the extermination of the carpetbag element’ and restoration of white supremacy
-the objectives of the league had shifted away from merely showing force in support of the coming November midterm elections to a possible violent overthrow of Louisiana’s Republican Government

Question 5

Where did they operate?

Answer 5

-extended into almost every Southern state by 1870
-most notorious zones of Klan activity was South Carolina

Question 6

What did they purchase?

Answer 6

-Crescent City White League purchased large quantities of arms and ammunition

Question 7

What did they resemble by the summer of 1874?

Answer 7

• resembled more closely an army than the political club it started as

Question 8

Who would they often cast themselves as? Why?

Answer 8

-as wronged people due to fear of the murderous outrages