Word: klan
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Critic--"The Kuklux-Klan in Fiction," by Edward Fuller...
Another article of interest in the May Atlantic is "The Reconstruction Period: the Ku Klux movement," by William Garrott Brown 91. The history of the whole period of the Reconstruction of the Southern States after the Civil War is, especially in the North, comparatively little known. The "Ku Klux Klan," a secret fraternity organized to oppose the carpet bag politicians and to prevent the dominance of the negroes, was a society unique and curious in its aims and work, and an account of it, as well as of the state of southern politics from which it arose, is full...