KKK Vows to ‘Kill the last damned Republican in the place’ | True Crime
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6 min readJun 13, 2020
History is often looked at as something that has happened. Rarely do we stop to question if such past monstrosities could happen again.
In 1871 Jackson County, Florida, during the Reconstruction era of 1865–77, the county saw a blood bath of hate-crime-murders. The year’s death tolls ranged from 153–179, making it the deadliest place in…