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#OnThisDayInBlackHistory (1869) TN governor W.C. Brownlow declares martial law in 9 counties in Middle and West TN in Ku Klux Klan crisis. "Klansmen attacked, whipped, and murdered black men and women whenever they found their activities offensive...." tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/ku-klu…
Normally I post these w/o comment. But yesterday's news about an AL editor calling for the return of the KKK makes this historical tidbit more than timely. You see, the Klan has always made its meteoric returns after sizable public gains in American life.
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The Klan began, as the link provided recounts, in the early years following the Civil War and during Reconstruction. Styling themselves as protectors of white communities and ways of life and of the Constitution, they ran local campaigns of terror all across the South.
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