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1 day ago · Ku Klux Klan, either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. One group was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, immediately after the Civil War and lasted until the 1870s. The other group began in 1915 and has continued to the present.
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13 hours ago · During the Civil War, it served briefly as a prison camp housing more than 12,000 prisoners before its closure. Conditions were poor, and a smallpox epidemic ravaged both prisoners and guards.
4 days ago · Independent Klan groups violently opposed the civil rights movement. KKK members were implicated in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on a Sunday in September 1963, which killed four African American girls and injured 22 other people.
5 days ago · Apologies from papers like the Advertiser for their failings during the 1960s seem “appropriate and desirable, given how bad they were,” said Civil Rights historian David Garrow, winner of the ...
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4 days ago · Point Lookout Prisoner of War Camp. Search, View, Print Union & Confederate Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865. Union July 1863- June 1865. Point Lookout, Maryland. As the number of prisoners steadily increased after the battle at Gettysburg , it became evident that the number of current Union prisons was not enough to hold them all.
6 days ago · The Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was the most infamous of the American Civil War. Subject to disease, massive overcrowding, and lack of food and water, the prison, which held forty-five thousand men during the course of the war, and at which thirteen thousand died, became emblematic of the sufferings of captured soldiers during the war.
2 days ago · The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"). The Confederacy had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to the war was the dispute over whether slavery ...
