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=== Lynchings and disenfranchisement === {{see also|Newberry Six lynchings}} During the post-Reconstruction period, White Democrats regained control of the state legislature and worked to restore White supremacy. Violence against Blacks, including lynchings, rose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as Whites imposed [[Jim Crow]] and discriminatory laws, [[Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era|disenfranchising most blacks]], which forced them out of the political system. Alachua County was the site of 21 documented [[Lynchings in the United States|lynchings]] between 1891 and 1926.<ref name="dandec">[https://www.wuft.org/news/2017/12/06/newberry-lynchings-should-they-be-memorialized/ Nicole Dan, "Newberry Lynchings: Should They Be Memorialized?"], WUFT-TV, December 6, 2017; accessed March 20, 2018</ref> The first three documented lynchings, in Gainesville in 1891, involved two Black men and a White man, who were associated with the notorious [[Harmon Murray]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chandler |first1=Billy Jaynes |title=Harmon Murray: Black Desperado in Later Nineteenth-Century Florida |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=October 1994 |volume=73 |issue=2 |pages=163β174 |jstor=30146739 }}</ref> Ten lynchings took place in [[Newberry, Florida|Newberry]], six of them in [[Newberry Six lynchings|a mass lynching there in 1916]].<ref name="dandec"/> These lynchings were conducted outside the justice system, by mobs or small groups working alone. Nineteen of the victims were Black; two were White.<ref name="LynchingsDan"/> (A 2015 report by the [[Equal Justice Initiative]], based in Montgomery, Alabama, had identified 18 lynchings.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eji.org/sites/default/files/lynching-in-america-third-edition-supplement-by-county.pdf|title=''Lynching in America'' Supplement: Lynchings by County |year=2015 |edition=3rd |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023063004/https://eji.org/sites/default/files/lynching-in-america-third-edition-summary.pdf |archive-date=October 23, 2017 |page=3}}</ref> The Historical Commission documented three more, including two white men.)<ref name="LynchingsDan"/> In September 2017, the county commission approved plans to place markers with the names of the victims in the county. (See linked article for names of these individuals.)<ref name="LynchingsDan">{{cite news|last1=Dan|first1=Nicole|title=At Least 21 Lynched In Alachua County, Historical Commission Confirms|url=https://www.wuft.org/news/2017/09/27/at-least-21-lynched-in-alachua-county-historical-commission-confirms/|publisher=WUFT-TV |access-date=January 9, 2018|date=September 27, 2017}}</ref> They are working with the Historical Commission and cities to discuss how best to achieve this.<ref name="dandec"/> A state historical marker on the Newberry Lynchings was dedicated in 2019.
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