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Early Louisiana civil rights pioneer W. Jasper Blackburn

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W. Jasper Blackburn was an anti-confederacy newspaper publisher in Homer, Louisiana. He was stabbed in the neck, shot, and chased into the woods, where he had to stay for quite some time. Blackburn was the only Southern editor who spoke out against the 1856 caning of Senator Charles Sumner. In 1868, delegates from each parish joined to write a new Louisiana constitution.

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Early Louisiana civil rights pioneer W. Jasper Blackburn

But if Blackburn fit the definition of a scalawag, perhaps we should look at all people who were labeled as scalawags in northwest Louisiana and reclassify them through a new historic lens.

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KTAL NBC 6 News broke the news in on Sunday, December 24, 2023.
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