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  • Description is exactly "(9) A Saturday, November 7, 1868 Athens (AL) Post report of "a very violent, abusive, and uncalled for speech in Florence against the secret Brotherhood [the Klan]" given by Republican and Grant elector CC Sheats, editor of the Decatur (AL). Republican. Later that night, Sheats was allegedly visited by a group of irate Klansmen who verbally abused him but stopped short of actual violence."

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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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