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Part One: The Birth of the Ku Klux Klan

Behind the Bastards

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The KKK's Response to US Grant's Election

The Klansman responded to his election with an orgy of violence. Nathan Bedford Forrest threatened to raise 40,000 men if the Republicans sent in the militia. William Luke was a white man who had the gall to come down from Canada and educate freed black people. Larky: The American missionary general reprinted the warning that one of their teachers received from the Mississippi KKK.

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