... Klan. In 1870 Grant instigated an investigation into the organization. "There has existed since 1868, in many counties of the state, an organization known as the Ku Klux Klan, or Invisible Empire of the South, which embraces in its membership a large porportion of the white population, among other things, that each member shall furnish himself with a pistol, a Ku Klux gown and ... Southern juries. "But where it was strong the Invisible Empire elected scores of local officials, state legislators, a few governors, several national representatives, including Earle B. Mayfield of Texas, Wil...

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