This was a major downfall for the southern males who did not like the idea of African Americans being granted the right to vote. ... The Grand Jury Reported one year later, "There has existed since 1868, in many counties of the state, an organization known as the Ku Klux Klan, or Invisible Empire of the South, which embraces in its membership a large proportion of the white population of every profession and class. ...

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