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Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy 1871 Congressional Testimony Documents: Mar 16, 8:43am 1 review activism, african-americans, terrorism, usa, human-rights
http://www.paperlessarchives.com/kkk_1871_testimony.html; Why haven't we ever heard of acts the U.S. government declared "terrorism" in 1869? 1871 Congressional Testimony Documents on the Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy. "...7,012 pages of Congressional testimony published in 1872 on the Ku Klux Klan activity, archived on two CD-ROMs. In 1869, a federal grand jury declared the Ku Klux Klan to be a terrorist organization. In January 1871, Pennsylvania Republican senator John Scott convened a committee, which took testimony from witnesses about Klan atrocities. In 1872, the U.S. Congress published the 13 volume "Report of the Joint Select Committee Appointed to Inquire in to the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States." Historians often referred to these volumes as the KKK Testimony. ..."

Ku Klux Klan: Mar 16, 8:30am 1 review activism, african-americans, black-americans, human-rights-violations, truth-commission
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkkk.htm; Have you ever read or heard of the 1871 U.S. federal investigation into the Ku Klux Klan? "... Radical Republicans in Congress such as Benjamin Butler urged President Ulysses S. Grant to take action against the Ku Klux Klan. In 1870 he instigated an investigation into the organization and the following year a Grand Jury reported that: "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. The Klan has a constitution and bylaws, which provides, among other things, that each member shall furnish himself with a pistol, a Ku Klux gown and a signal instrument. The operations of the Klan are executed in the night and are invariably directed against members of the Republican Party. The Klan is inflicting summary vengeance on the colored citizens of these citizens by breaking into their houses at the dead of night, dragging them from their beds, torturing them in the most inhuman manner, and in many instances murdering. ..."