The Camilla Massacre, which took place on September 19, 1868, was one of the more violent episodes in Reconstruction<span> Georgia. </span>Thomas Nast Cartoon<span>Two months earlier, Georgia had fulfilled the requirements of Congress's Radical Reconstruction plan and been readmitted to the Union. Yet, in early September, the </span>state legislature<span>expelled twenty-eight newly elected members because they were at least one-eighth black. Among those removed was southwest Georgia representative Philip Joiner. On September 19, Joiner, along with northerners Francis F. Putney and William P. Pierce, led a twenty-five-mile march of several hundred blacks and a few whites from </span>Albany<span> to Camilla, the </span>Mitchell County<span> seat, to attend a Republican political rally.</span>
<span>Republican ticket in </span>southwest Georgia<span>, from the white voters by painting </span>them<span> as radicals and traitors. I c</span>ould be wrong but i hope this helps!
