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The Department of Justice was created in 1870 to handle the increase of litigation against white supremacists who were intimidating Black voters and Republicans for supporting Black suffrage. The KKK was driven from legitimacy by the DOJ under the direction of President Ulysses S Grant only to be resurface again during the presidency of Democrat Woodrow Wilson in 1913.

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