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Louisiana Returning Board and the 1876 election case
A reflective analysis details violence and intimidation that shaped Louisiana's 1876 presidential vote. It argues the Returning Board acted within state law to exclude ballots tainted by riot, murder, and coercion in five parishes with large colored majorities, and warns this remedy was partial and insufficient to fully restore free suffrage.
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Sousand
Owithin
Viai
Gant Fercor
Parish of
Orleans
General Grant
New Orleans
Caddo
Landry
Segaf
Blair
Ku Klux
Ifav
Louisiana
Sewilo
Ang
Supreme Authority
Pres- Returning Board of
Menhell
Niefer
Democratic Party
United States
Supreme Court
Louisiane Annual Reports
Returning Board
Creneral Thomas CC. Anderson
Levi Wells
Rapides
Banks
Michael Hahn
Senate
Wells
Johnson
Street Commissioners’ Bureau
Democratic Conservative Party
Pears
East
West Feliciana
Mississippi
East Baton Rouge
Ast Feliciana
Morehouse
Arkansas
Ouachita
Eaft
East Feliciana
Central Democratic Committee
John Silerman
J. A. Garfield
Ohio
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