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Behind the Bastards
It provided insight into the Klan's accidental spread through initiation of travelers, as well as its transformation from pranks to a means of suppressing Black people, and its later attempt to portray itself as a force for order.
We could not engage at once in business or professional pursuits. Few had capital to enter mercantile or agricultural enterprises. There was a total lack of amusement and social diversions which preva...
— Episode: Part One: The Birth of the Ku Klux Klan
Episode: Part One: The Birth of the Ku Klux Klan
It provided insight into the Klan's accidental spread through initiation of travelers, as well as its transformation from pranks to a means of suppressing Black people, and its later attempt to portray itself as a force for order.
We could not engage at once in business or professional pursuits. Few had capital to enter mercantile or agricultural enterprises. There was a total lack of amusement and social diversions which prevail wherever society is in a normal condition so everything's fucked up because of the war still.
It's mysteriousness was the sensation of the hour. Every issue of the local paper contained some notice of the strange order.
During the fall and winter of 1866 the growth of the clan was rapid. It spread over a wide extent of territory sometimes by a sudden leap it appeared in localities far distant from any existing dens.
In a short time the lictor of the Pulaski din reported that travel along the road which he had his post had almost entirely stopped. In the country it was noticed that the nocturnal perambulation of the colored population diminished or entirely ceased.
there never was before since a period of our history when such an order could have lived may they're never again