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[[File:Kkk-carpetbagger-cartoon.jpg|left|300px|thumb|A cartoon threatening that the that Democrat donkey and KKK will lynch scalawags (left) and [[carpetbagger]]s (right) on March 4, 1869, the day President Grant takes office. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Independent Monitor, September 1, 1868. A full-scale scholarly history analyzes the cartoonː Guy W. Hubbs, Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman (2015).<ref>Hubbs, Guy W. (May 15, 2015). [https://books.google.com/books?id=KIVoCQAAQBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s "Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman"]. University Alabama Press.</ref>]]
[[File:Kkk-carpetbagger-cartoon.jpg|left|300px|thumb|A cartoon threatening that the that Democrat donkey and KKK will lynch scalawags (left) and [[carpetbagger]]s (right) on March 4, 1869, the day President Grant takes office. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Independent Monitor, September 1, 1868. A full-scale scholarly history analyzes the cartoonː Guy W. Hubbs, Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman (2015).<ref>Hubbs, Guy W. (May 15, 2015). [https://books.google.com/books?id=KIVoCQAAQBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s "Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman"]. University Alabama Press.</ref>]]
At the turn of the 20th century, southern states passed new constitutions or [[Jim Crow]] laws which effectively disenfranchised most blacks and established [[segregation]] of public facilities by race/ Nearly 3,500 Blacks and 1,300 [[white]]s were lynched between 1882 and 1968.<ref>[http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingsstate.html Lynchings: By State and Race, 1882–1968.] Statistics provided by the Archives at Tuskegee Institute. University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100629081241/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingsstate.html]</ref>
At the turn of the 20th century, southern states passed new constitutions or [[Jim Crow]] laws which effectively disenfranchised most blacks and established [[segregation]] of public facilities by race/ Nearly 3,500 Blacks and 1,300 [[white]]s were lynched between 1882 and 1968.<ref>[http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingsstate.html Lynchings: By State and Race, 1882–1968.] Statistics provided by the Archives at Tuskegee Institute. University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100629081241/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingsstate.html]</ref>
A large majority of [[Carpetbagger]]s joined the Republican Party coalition in southern states, along with Freedmen, free blacks, and Scalawags (native white southerners). The Republican coalition controlled every state (except Virginia) for a while; they were all overcome by Democrat and Klan violence, the coalition of [[Redeemers]] in 1870-77.
Former [[Supreme Court]] Justice [[James F. Byrnes]], appointed by [[Franklin Roosevelt]] and later [[Secretary of State]] under President [[Harry Truman]] said, "[[rape]] is responsible, directly and indirectly, for most of the lynching in America."<ref>https://segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/segregation-forever-leaders.html</ref> Franklin Roosevelt appointed [[Ku Klux Klan]] Grand Wizard [[Hugo Black]] to the Supreme Court.
Former [[Supreme Court]] Justice [[James F. Byrnes]], appointed by [[Franklin Roosevelt]] and later [[Secretary of State]] under President [[Harry Truman]] said, "[[rape]] is responsible, directly and indirectly, for most of the lynching in America."<ref>https://segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/segregation-forever-leaders.html</ref> Franklin Roosevelt appointed [[Ku Klux Klan]] Grand Wizard [[Hugo Black]] to the Supreme Court.