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The US Has Pardoned Insurrectionists Twice Before, Both Times, Years of Violent Racism Followed

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By Joseph Kelly, david cason
| The Skanner Verified
Joseph Patrick Kelly, Professor of Literature and Director of Irish and Irish American Studies, College of Charleston; David Cason, Associate Professor in Honors, University of North Dakota Published: 09 March 2025 But they share the apparent hope that their pardons would herald periods of national harmony. As historians of the period after the Civil War, we know that for Johnson and Grant, that’s not what happened.
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The US has pardoned insurrectionists twice before - and both times, years of violent racism followed

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By Joseph Kelly, david cason
| Idaho Press Verified
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Donald Trump is the third U.S. president to pardon a large group of insurrectionists. His clemency toward those convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection – including seditious conspiracy and assaults on police officers – was different in key ways from the two previous efforts, by Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Ulysses S. Grant in 1873.
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Preying on White Fears Worked for Georgia’s Lester Maddox in the ’60s and is Working There for Trump Today

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By david cason
| CounterPunch Verified
In January 1967, after a gubernatorial election that saw neither candidate gain enough votes to win, the Georgia Legislature was faced with a vital decision: the selection of the state’s 75th governor during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Legislators chose the candidate who earned the least number of votes and was an ardent segregationist – Democrat Lester Maddox, owner of a chicken restaurant and a perennial candidate.
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