tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633283095482030538.post4276982576985495177..comments2024-01-20T15:18:03.008-06:00Comments on From Slaves to Soldiers and Beyond - Williamson County, Tennessee's African American History: July 1868 lynchings in Williamson County, Tennessee and the rise of the KKKTina Cahalan Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01832317925658128123noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633283095482030538.post-91851179461576614972020-06-03T12:16:43.670-05:002020-06-03T12:16:43.670-05:00JoeRyan - thank you for reading the blog and for y...JoeRyan - thank you for reading the blog and for your comment. I have written and researched extensively about African American Williamson Countians who left the area during the post-War period. A good place to start is this post which explores the Exoduster movement in which southern former slaves left for Kansas and other western states. - http://usctwillcotn.blogspot.com/2019/03/williamson-countys-exodusters.htmlTina Cahalan Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01832317925658128123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633283095482030538.post-73631009449455882032020-05-29T11:01:20.255-05:002020-05-29T11:01:20.255-05:00Recognizing the facts established, there remains t...Recognizing the facts established, there remains the reality that the KKK, as it originated in Tennessee was hardly a surprise given the manner in which the Brownlow state Government dealt with the issue of who could vote and who could not. The function of the KKK was the means of terrorizing the black voters not to vote, or to vote "conservative." Within two years Brownlow was gone to Washington and the new administration returned voting rights to the white voters and the KKK disappeared, to be resurrected fifty years later as a national political party. The most interesting question, is why it was the black population of the county left it in the decades after 1870. Where did they go, to Nashville? To the North? Has their progeny come back?JoeRyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01534553923450796468noreply@blogger.com