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655. The Ku Klux Klan: Terror in the South (Part 2)
Episode 655

655. The Ku Klux Klan: Terror in the South (Part 2)

The Rest Is History

March 26, 20261h 10mExplicit

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Show Notes

How and why did the terrible violence of the Ku Klux Klan escalate? What was the political context in America for their rising popularity? And, how was this first iteration of the Klan finally brought down?


Join Dominic and Tom as they discuss American politics after the Civil War, the growing popularity of the Ku Klux Klan in the American south and their increasingly barbaric treatment of freedmen, as well as their final destruction…    

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