The KKK “Works Upon the Fears of the Colored People” NY Times Feb. 1868

The New York Times only first reported on the Klan in January 1868, but it soon became a regular topic of coverage. This article in the Times reprints an article from a Tennessee paper claiming that the Klan existed to intimidate African Americans into not voting.

NY Times February 10, 1868

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