... weak, the innocent and the defenseless...: to relieve the injured and oppressed: and to succur suffering..." The convention designated the Klan as an invisible Empire and provided for a supreme official, called Grand Wizard of the Empire, who wielded virtually autocratic power and who was assisted by ten Genii. From 1868 to 1870, while federal occupation troops were being withdrawn from the ... were left they adopted a new fraternal organization incorporated in Georgia in 1915. the official name of the society, Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Membership was open to native-...

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