A freedman who had been brave enough to speek out against the Klan, to a tree at the courthouse in the town of Graham and hanged him.
The members used violence against African Americans
The Ku Klux Klan
To intimidate
The Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan
To intimidate them and prevent them from exercising their rights.
they used violence
they used violence
The Ku Klux Klan did not want newly freed Blacks to vote because they wanted to intimidate them and keep them from positions of power. The Ku Klux Klan used many methods of terror and harassment to intimidate Blacks, but in 1870 the Enforcement Acts were enacted to prevent this.
To intimidate and subjugate recently freed slaves.
they were white
what was the klu klux klan
In the absence of courts on the frontier, many thieves and rustlers were lynched when caught. The Ku Klux Klan lynched dozens of men in the South to intimidate the black population.