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Glossary Term – Organization

scabs

Scabs are workers who break labor strikes or who are hired to replace striking workers. During the Jim Crow era, African Americans were sometimes hired as scab workers (often for much lower compensation than the white workers they were replacing).

Glossary Term – Organization

Redeemers

Redeemers were white southern Democrats who aimed to put an end to Reconstruction and biracial governments and restore the Democratic Party to power in the South. Following the end of Reconstruction, Redemption governments implemented Jim Crow laws to establish voting restrictions and segregation in the South.