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DescriptionKu Klux Klan costumes in North Carolina in 1870.jpg
English: Engraving of Ku Klux Klansmen first published in 1884. The engraving replicates an 1870 photograph taken under the direction of deputy U.S. marshal J. G. Hester, who seized the disguises of arrested North Carolina Klansmen and had the photo taken as a demonstration of what the Klan reportedly did to a white Republican, John A. Campbell
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Uploaded a work by Green Berry Raum from https://books.google.com/books?id=N5tBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA157 Raum, Green Berry. ''The Existing Conflict Between Republican Government and Southern Oligarchy.'' Cleveland: N.G. Hamilton & Co. 1884. p. 157 with UploadWizard