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Congress investigates the Ku Klux Klan...
Congress investigates the Ku Klux Klan...
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February 19, 1872
THE NEW YORK HERALD, Feb. 19, 1872
* KKK - Ku Klux Klan investigation
* United States Congress
The top of page 3 has one column headings that include: "THE KU-KLUX" "Reports of the Congressional Committee on Southern Outrages" "The Violence and Crimes of the Ku Klux Condemned on Both Sides" "An Appeal To the South" and more. (see) Lengthy text.
This was the first formal and in-depth federal investigation of this white supremacist society which sought to deprive former slaves of the rights & freedoms promised by Reconstruction. A very notable issue.
complete with 12 pages, nice condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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