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The White League's Summer of Terror

In August 1874, the White League summer of terror climaxed in the town of Kushada. The majority black area was controlled by a white Republican family, the Twitchelles. Marshall Twitchell was a Union Army veteran from Vermont who led black troops during the Civil War. He fought for black public education and appointed his brother and three brothers-in-law to local positions in Red River Parish.

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