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Ku Klux Klan
A secret organisation founded in the southern states during Reconstruction to terrorise and intimidate former slaves and prevent them from voting or holding public office. Officially disbanded in 1869, a second anti black, anti Catholic, and anti Semitic Klan emerged in 1915 that aimed to preserve "Americanism. "
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