Talk:South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876

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This article violates the neutral POV policy in the following ways:

1. Gives undue weight to a fringe theory (a positive take on the post-Reconstruction disenfranchisement movement) with little to no coverage of mainstream historians
2. Uses emotional language ("the black mobs ruled the streets of Charleston", "the white people lived in absolute fear from the black mobs and militias")
3. Asserts opinions as facts ("The inability of Governor Chamberlain and the local law authorities to preserve the peace further convinced the people of the state of the failure of Republican rule.")
4. Cites a disreputable source (Williams 1935)
5. Omits the coordinated, statewide voter intimidation acts conducted by various groups of Redshirts and Democratic party members/sympathizers. Excludes the numerous murders and violent assaults of black citizens.
6. Omits relevant contextual information, such as the political violence and intimidation directed towards blacks and/or Republicans in the years prior to the 1876 elections. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevinroot (talk • contribs) 01:44, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

The article was created in 2006, has had about 30 edits since then, and not one of them thought to remove the blatantly racist material from it. So much for crowd sourcing.Volunteer Marek 01:48, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

I'm working on it with facts and sources from the individual articles about these events; just came across it today. It is so biased and unsourced, the whole thing could be deleted. Williams sounds like one of the Dunning School - everything bad during Reconstruction was the fault of the freedmen.Parkwells (talk) 22:56, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

Needs sources

Incidents (Edgefield, Mt. Pleasant) are described and listed without any sources, and it has been difficult to find corroboration of these events. If they are not cited soon, I'll delete them.Parkwells (talk) 20:33, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

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