Redeemers
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The Redeemers were a political coalition in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era that followed the American Civil War. Redeemers were the Southern wing of the Democratic Party. They sought to regain their political power and... Wikipedia
Founded: 1865
Associated paramilitaries: Ku Klux Klan; White League; Red Shirts; Knights of the White Camelia
Dissolved: 1877
Ideology: White supremacy; Anti-Reconstruction; Segregationism
Merged into: Southern Democrats; • Solid South / Southern Bloc
National affiliation: Democratic Party; • Southern Democrats