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I've read a Victoria AAR where, among other interesting things, this happens:

Almost immediately after his death, a cult of Lee emerged. Lee was quoted as saying:

"You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey"

Learn to obey, it was the rallying cry of the League of the South, and the Southern Christian Army. It began appearing on posters and in newspapers, under pictures of Lee. His words and ideas were twisted by the Southern Resistance, and Lee was framed as a freedom fighter who supported armed resurrection against the North. Southerners, many now feeling disenfranchised by their new governments, took to the new ideology of service. Old Confederate generals and politicians formed underground shadow governments. The most famous of these was the government formed by Thomas Jackson and the Southern Christian Army.

The SCA is basically a neo-Confederate political party. There is no Klan, as it was destroyed under a President Sheridan's administration. Then, this happens:

The event occurred not because of any single event, but instead because of the growth of the Southern Christian Army. It became standard for students in colleges and business leaders to join the SCA. The majority of successful southerners were now members of the SCA, a predominantly Protestant organization. In the North, a different organization was founded. The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic group named after the famous explorer, emerged as a Northern answer for the SCA. The group took hold across the North, but also grew heavily in Maryland, a very Catholic state. The presence of a rival so close to the SCA's center of power in Richmond, caused a great deal of fear. That fear lashed out into violence in December of 1882.

The firekeg was lit when Charles Miner was killed. Miner was a black Catholic who had found work in Richmond. He was accused, falsely, of the rape of a white woman. The SCA led the crusade to apprehend him. Miner fled, and sought sanctuary in a Catholic church. A group of SCA supporters found him, and murdered him. This infuriated the Knights of Columbus, who flooded Richmond in protest. The result of was a fist fight that grew into a riot. 15 men were killed, another 50 were wounded. Two churches, one Protestant and one Catholic, were burnt in the process. Thomas Jackson, now in his late 50's, was forced to resign as head of the SCA as a result. The SCA was thrown into a state of disarray, and the government was faced with a black eye from the violence.

The idea seems pretty interesting. A predominantly white Catholic organization wages war against anti-black ones out of the deaths of one of their own. Could such an event have happened in OTL? If so, what kind of white groups could have stepped up to protect blacks during Reconstruction and after? Apparently, the Knights of Columbus in real life was a segregated society until the 20th century.

Also I just realized that Charles Miner is the name of a black character who briefly was on the Office. I think this part of the AAR was written before that episode. The writers of the show are stealing ideas from the Paradox forums!
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