In 1876, the “White Liners,” Confederate veterans who had become vigilantes allied with the Democratic Party, murdered with impunity hundreds of African-Americans and ultimately forced the Republicans to withdraw federal troops from the South, which opened the floodgates of what became the era of Jim Crow and the Klan. Welcome to This Day In New Haven History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum time travel back to that turning-point year.
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