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To: Sasparilla

Not hereabouts.


27 posted on 06/24/2015 8:12:59 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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Six college students founded the Ku Klux Klan between December 1865 and the summer of 1866 in the town of Pulaski, Tennessee. Former Confederate officers, the six young men organized as a social club or fraternity and spent their time in horseplay of various types, including wearing disguises and galloping about town after dark. They were surprised to learn that their nightly appearances were causing fear. They quickly took advantage of this effect and the group began a rapid expansion.

The Klan harassed, intimidated and even killed Northern teachers, judges, politicians and “carpetbaggers” of all ilk. By late 1867, the movement had spread throughout the small towns of the South, though it did not take hold in urban areas, perhaps because at that time the cities were not suffering the economic hardships of rural regions. Klansmen began waging guerilla warfare against what they perceived as a corrupt system depriving them of rights.


29 posted on 06/24/2015 8:21:59 PM PDT by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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