Today I drove from Eufaula, AL (in Barbour County, where I was born and where I visited a cousin this afternoon) to Montgomery to spend the night with my sister. In rural Barbour County, near Midway, I passed an historic marker that reminded me of an election night riot by local white Democrats that suppressed black votes, “fixed” an election, killed a number of blacks, …..including the son of the white Republican county supervisor’ ….. and winded many more, mostly blacks.
Allegations of voter interference in America are not new. Nor are they always mere hyperbolic fairy tales…. And they’re not always carried out by the groups one expects, either.
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/election-riots-of-1874/