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The White League's Insurrection on New Orleans
The White League had pre-arranged the massacre. The riders shot all six officials dead and buried them in shallow graves. Then, back in Kushata, white mobs murdered four black men. This Kushata massacre made headlines all across America. Northerners were stunned to learn about the execution of all of the Republican officeholders in a single parish. Even more shocking was the fact that the victims were white. It seemed no one was safe. And just two weeks later, the White League carried its campaign of violence to the state capital in New Orleans, targeting the Republican government there. They were determined to depose Republican Governor William Pitt Kellogg and replace him with his Democratic Pullman from
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