As the Ku Klux Klan garnered national headlines for its terrorism in 1868, many white-owned Southern newspapers took the side of the Klan. They were explicit in describing the Klan as an anti-black organization dedicated, in the words of this article, to the “all glorious doctrine that this a white man’s government and must remain so.”
Public Ledger
Tuesday, March 24, 1868
Memphis, Tennessee
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