Two Books on a Reconstruction-Era Murder and Its Aftermath
In May 1870, John W. Stephens, a white state senator closely allied with black voters, was lured into the lumber room of the stately courthouse in Caswell County, N.C. Inside, members of the local Ku Klux Klan were waiting. They demanded that he renounce the Republican Party. When he refused, they…
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