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  • Description is exactly "(5) A Wednesday, September 23, 1868 Nashville Republican Banner report of the burning of the Tuscumbia Female Academy and the lynching of thee African-American men thought responsible by about 500 Klansmen who had ridden into town and forcibly removed the men from the custody of the guards after exchanging fire and breaking down the doors of the Masonic Hall where the men were being held awaiting trial. "

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This is a collection of articles related to the original Ku Klux Klan that formed just after the Civil War.

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in late May or June of 1866 by six bored ex-Confederates in Pulaski, Tennessee: J. Calvin Jones; Frank…
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