
Part One: The Birth of the Ku Klux Klan
Behind the Bastards
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The Power of Terror
Tales quickly began to spread across the old South that ghosts of dead Confederates had started to wander the earth. Lester says the KKK men suddenly realized that this, yeah, give them another way to dominate their former slaves. He and other racists claimed that the Klan's tactics were powerful because freed people were superstitious.
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