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Robert R. Ray was an American soldier and politician. He served in the Union Army and as a sheriff and state legislator in Louisiana. He and John Gair were driven from office by violent white supremacists and
White League The White League, also known as the White Man's League, was a white supremacist paramilitary terrorist organization started in the Southern United States in 1874 to intimidate freedmen (emancipated Black former slaves) into not voting and prevent ...
rs. Ray was part of the State Colored Men's Convention of 1873. He represented
East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana East Feliciana Parish (, ) is a List of parishes in Louisiana, parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 19,531. The parish seat is Clinton, Louisiana, Clinton. Established ...
from 1874 to 1876.Black Legislators in Louisiana during Reconstruction by Charles Vincent


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African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900 More than 1,500 African-American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern sta ...


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