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PART ONE. Introduction: Investigating Violence -- White Supremacy and the Rise and Fall of Reconstruction. Presidential Reconstruction and the Roots of White Violence ; Radical Reconstruction, Organized Lawlessness, and Congressional Investigation ; Testimony of White Violence and Black Resistance ; The Outcome of the Hearings and the Legacy of Reconstruction -- PART TWO. The Documents. Background and Beginnings. Laws of the State of Mississippi, 1865 ; First Enforcement Act, May 31, 1870 ; Third Enforcement (Ku Klux Klan) Act, April 20, 1871 ; Rome (Ga.) Courier, October 24, 1871 -- Ku Klux Klan Violence and the Hearings. Gender and Sexual Violence. Caroline Smith, Atlanta, Georgia, October 21, 1871 ; Sarah Ann Sturtevant, Atlanta, Georgia, October 23, 1871 ; Hannah Tutson, Jacksonville, Florida, November 10, 1871; Harriet Simril, Columbia, South Carolina, December 19, 1871 -- Political Violence: The Franchise. Abram Colby, Atlanta, Georgia, October 27 and 28, 1871 ; John Childers, Livingston, Alabama, November 1, 1871 ; Betsey Westbrook, Demopolis, Alabama, October 24, 1871 ; James H. Alston, Montgomery, Alabama, October 17, 1871 -- Landownership, Economic Success, and Displacement. Eliza Lyon, Demopolis, Alabama, October 24, 1871 ; Warren Jones, Atlanta, Georgia, October 27, 1871 ; Samuel Tutson, Jacksonville, Florida, November 10, 1871 ; Augustus Blair, Huntsville, Alabama, October 9, 1871 -- Black Autonomous Institutions: Schools and Churches. Henry Giles, Montgomery, Alabama, October 17, 1871 ; Cornelius McBride, Washington, D.C., July 21, 1871 ; Elias Hill, Yorkville, South Carolina, July 25, 1871 -- Self-Defense. Willis Johnson, Columbia, South Carolina, July 3, 1871 ; Benjamin F. Herr, Livingston, Alabama, October 31 and November 1, 1871 ; Edmund W. Pettus, Washington, D.C., July 6, 1871 -- Ku Klux Klan: Members, Apologists, Makeup, and Character. Nathan Bedford Forrest, Washington, D.C., June 27, 1871 ; A. S. Lakin, Washington, D.C., June 13, 1871 ; William M. Lowe, Huntsville, Alabama, October 13, 1871 -- Committee Conclusions. Minority Report, February 19, 1872 ; Majority Report, February 19, 1872 -- Appendixes. A Brief Chronology of Reconstruction and the Ku Klux Klan Hearings (1863-1877) ; Questions for Consideration ; Selected Bibliography. |