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A now-abandoned town in South Carolina, near the Georgia border, that was the site of the Red Shirts massacre during Reconstruction. Robert Mereday and his brother Leroy were from Hamburg.
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Hamburg, SC Term Timeline in The Color of Law
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Chapter 3: Racial Zoning
A group called the Red Shirts conducted one such massacre in Hamburg, South Carolina. The group’s leader, Benjamin Tillman, exploited the fame it gave him to run...
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Chapter 4: “Own Your Own Home”
...III, Rothstein recalls an interview with Pam Harris, whose “great-uncle, Leroy Mereday, was born in Hamburg [South Carolina] fourteen years after the Red Shirt massacre.” Mereday ended up on Long Island,...
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