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Laws were passed throughout the old slave states that banned vagrancy, or being out in public without a visible means of support. Local sheriffs would arrest free blacks on flimsy to non existent evidence, then drive them into a cruel and inhuman justice system whose punishments often resulted in death. Anyone on the roads without proof of employment was quickly subjected to police action. The kk k formed initially in polaski tennessee. In 18 66, the vafer polas like saying, "Polaski, fun name of a town is shame, ye shame" They dressed up as drunk off-the-cuff confederate veterans who went around terrorizing black people