A Democrat, Lindsay was
elected governor in 1870, following a year of white terrorism against black people: violence, including murders, and intimidation of black and white Republicans and freedmen supporters. For example, five Republicans, four black and one white, were lynched in
Calhoun County; three black people (two who were Republican politicians) were murdered in
Greene County, in March and October; the white Republican County Solicitor was murdered there in March; and on October 25, a Republican rally of 2,000 black people was disrupted by a mob of whites, who killed four black people and wounded 54 in the
Eutaw riot. Black people were intimidated and stayed home from the polls, with Democratic white voters in Greene County and elsewhere taking the state for Lindsay. Once elected governor, Lindsay ensured a reduction in violence, especially at the hands of the
Ku Klux Klan. He died in
Tuscumbia, Alabama on February 13, 1902. ==See also==