NC Senate weighs Reconstruction governor’s pardon
RALEIGH, N.C.RALEIGH, N.C.— North Carolina’s present-day lawmakers are deciding whether to pass judgment on a decision by their Reconstruction-era predecessors 140 years ago to impeach and kick out a governor whose chief offense stemmed from stopping Ku Klux Klan violence during the turbulent years after the Civil War. In a move that could compel legislators to confront the state’s racist past, the Senate wants to debate this week a resolution pardoning the late Republican Gov. William Woods Holden... Читать дальше...