Here is a Mississippi paper’s publication of the platform of the KKK which focuses on the disenfranchisement of blacks. Many white conservative newspapers published Klan propaganda.
The Grenada sentinel., March 28, 1868, Image 1
About The Grenada sentinel. (Grenada, Miss.)
The “mean whites and radical negroes” referred to in the first paragraph are those people of both races who advocated a color-blind legal system in Mississippi. “Mean” is used in the sense of a person “of poor, shabby, or inferior quality or status.”
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