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Rebirth of Klan
With immigration of foerigners, the hatred towards aliens and blacks returns and unites many in the Klan.
Legal segregtion (jim crow) + KKK violence = awful period in American History for African Americans.
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Reign of Terror
Many members at this time.
Under leadership of Evans, there is a terrorism campaign.
Commonly use lynching, whipping, and shooting.
Very violent, with thousands of African AMercians killed during this period.
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Kirven Texas Lynching
Had 2 white suspects
Found a black man (Curry) to blame and lynched him and two friends.
Not enough revenge as them kill many of his friends.
"Survivors claimed that hanged blacks were found daily and that other bullet-ridden bodies were discovered in outhouses, fields and shallow graves."
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KKK Stats
