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The Most Sacred Right (2020)

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The Ku Klux Klan and the Black Right to Vote

The Ku Klux Klan and many other imitators wage an informal, largely vigilante terror war against Republican politics. This was Frederick Douglass's worst nightmare. The Jim Crow era would be defined by the violent, systematic oppression of black Americans across the South.

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