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The Ku Klux Klan Abridged History and Rise
An abridged 1905 Metropolitan Magazine piece outlines the Ku Klux Klan as a spontaneous reaction to Reconstruction, detailing its origins among Tennessee college boys, its spread across the South, and its declared aims to enforce order. It describes the Union League, carpetbaggers, and figures like Thaddeus Stevens, Judge Tourgee, and Nathan Bedford Forrest, plus regional leaders, loyalties, and alleged consequences of negro rule and white resistance.
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Metropolitan Magazine
Ku Klux Klan
South
Pulaski, Tenn
Tennessee
Europe
Lincoln
North
Congress
House of Representatives
Thaddeus Stevens
Union League
League
Union League of America
Cleveland
Ohio
Friends
Abraham Lincoln
John C. Freemont
Baltimore
Fremont
South Carolina
Johnson
James
Rio Grande
Albion W. Tourgee
Tourgee
Holden
North Carolina
Commonwealth
Raleigh
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Supreme Court
Richit
Court House
Dallas
Gaston County
Washington
White Brotherhood
Judge Tourgee
Bedford Forrest
Southwest
McAfee
University of North Carolina
Lee
Appomattox
McAlpin
Ferguson
Scotland
America
Down
Antrim
Ireland
Forrest
George Gordon
Georgia
Hill