Traces the rise and fall of the Ku Klux Klan during the Reconstruction period, and describes its manifestations in each of the Southern states.

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Excerpt from Invisible Empire: The Story of the Ku Klux Klan, 1866-1871 Shows that bad government will make bad citizens; and when the corruption, extortions an