It was viewed as a vigilante group created to intimidate black people or white people who were there to help them. ... (Chalmers 9) After the Civil War, when social classes were out of order, the Klan wanted to restore it by -returning the Negro to the field "just as long as he didn't do too well there "and the prewar leaders to their former seats of power."" ... This also drove out the white people who would help out the black people (such as Northern schoolteachers and other Yankees as well as carpetbag judges)... The poor white dirt farmers felt that these black men were g...

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