White Violence Crushed Progressive Change Won During Reconstruction
On Feb. 18, 1868, in Charleston, S.C., Radical Republican Solomon George Washington Dill, generally known as S.G.W. Dill, rose at South Carolina’s Second Constitutional Conference to supply a decision that will defend sharecroppers and tenant farmers, together with previously enslaved Black folks, from gouging by white landowners. The decision was tabled however when Dill, a […]
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