... white man. The poor white dirt farmers felt that these black men were going to try to take their jobs and interfere in their everyday, normal lives. (16-17) President Ulysses S. Grant began to get frustrated with the Ku Klux Klan after hearing of the turmoil they had been causing. On April 20, 1871 the Force Bill, also know as the Ku ... a pyrotechnically aggressive defense of one-hundred-percent Americanism.""(32) Even Simmons was doing this for show. When introduced to a group of Georgia Klansmen, he silently took a Colt automatic from his pocket and put it on the table in front of hi...

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