The KKK is known as a supremacist cult who violently commits acts of terror to anyone who supported Reconstruction. Being a group of elite members who spend their time publicly killing republicans, they were rarely held accountable. In the letter written by Abram Colby, a former slave who was elected to Georgia state legislator, the nature of the violence of the KKK and the South is illustrated. “ it is my mournful duty to inform you that our friend John W.Stephens, state senator from Caswell, is dead. he was foully murdered by ku-klux in the Grand jury room of the Court House on Saturday “( Document A) and “ On the 29th of October 1869,[ the Klansmen] broke my door open, took me out of bed, took to the woods and whipped me for dead …. They said I had voted to grant and carried the Negroes against them” (Document.B) . The ku Klux Klan, having the mindset that any individual with any political power who did not see eye to eye, was punished by death. The Ku Klux Klan managed to slowly kill all radicals, decreasing the chances of public
The KKK is known as a supremacist cult who violently commits acts of terror to anyone who supported Reconstruction. Being a group of elite members who spend their time publicly killing republicans, they were rarely held accountable. In the letter written by Abram Colby, a former slave who was elected to Georgia state legislator, the nature of the violence of the KKK and the South is illustrated. “ it is my mournful duty to inform you that our friend John W.Stephens, state senator from Caswell, is dead. he was foully murdered by ku-klux in the Grand jury room of the Court House on Saturday “( Document A) and “ On the 29th of October 1869,[ the Klansmen] broke my door open, took me out of bed, took to the woods and whipped me for dead …. They said I had voted to grant and carried the Negroes against them” (Document.B) . The ku Klux Klan, having the mindset that any individual with any political power who did not see eye to eye, was punished by death. The Ku Klux Klan managed to slowly kill all radicals, decreasing the chances of public