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The Rise and Fall of the Klan
Wyatt Outlaw organized a small black police patrol in Alamance County, North Carolina. When Klansmen rode through in February 1869, Outlaw's force drove them off before they could launch their attack. But just one year later, the Klan retaliated and hanged Outlaw from a tree. Republican Governor William Holden dispatched a state militia unit to combat white violence. He defeated the Klan militarily, but he paid a heavy political price. In statewide elections in the fall of 1870, Democrats won control of the state legislature. And with his departure for Klan supporters in southern Democrats, North Carolina was officially redeemed.
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