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Ku Klux Klan
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KKK began
The Ku Klux Klan started as a social club in Tennessee -
Dedicated themselves to perform violent acts
against the republican leaders and republican voters -
10 percent of black legislator that were elected during the 1867-1868
constitutional conventions were victims of violence during the reconstructive period -
EVolved into a hooded terrorist organization
that called the members the invisible empire of the south -
Local Klan leaders
carried out their attacks at night -
Congress passed the Enforcements Acts
which made it a crime to interfere with registration, voting, officeholding or jury service of the blacks -
500 masked men attacked
the Union county jail and lynched 8 black prisoners in South Carolina -
Congress passed Ku Klux Klan act
Allowed government to take action against terrorist organizations such as the KKK -
Ku Klux Klan act declared unconstitutional
by the supreme court