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  • Description is exactly "(8) A Monday, October 5, 1868 Public Ledger (Memphis, TN) reprint of a September 23, 1868, Tuscumbia North Alabamian & Times article reporting on the attempted arrest of George Crim, alias George Johnston, charged with arson in the earlier destruction of the Tuscumbia Female Academy, in Huntsville, in Madison County, Alabama. The two officers from Tuscumbia were prevented from taking Crim/Johnston into custody by Huntsville Freedmen's Bureau Agent Col. DC Rugg and a large body of freedmen."

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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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