Ku Klux Klan,
secret terrorist society widespread in the South during Reconstruction. It intended to keep freed blacks subservient, and used various methods of instilling fear, ranging from masks, flowing white robes, and horseback parades to raids by night, whippings, and tarring and feathering. It figures in ... ...
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