1. The Memphis, Tennessee Race Riots of 1866
" Shouts a Southern citizen at the Memphis Tennessee Race Riot of May 1866. Violent riots like these were not always common in Tennessee and Louisiana, but due to the Radical Republicans, the Democrats only way to cope was to rebel. ... A failure, however, was that due to the harsh Reconstruction plan that the Radical Republicans created, Southerners rebelled and created clans/clubs that insulted African Americans and can be still found today in Southern states such as Tennessee....
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