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Suggested Activities || Klan in Alabama 1. Racism and the bitter
memory of Reconstruction figured prominently in the 1920s Klan
movement in Alabama: I am a very old lady, lived over my three
score years; born and reared in the Deep South. I am an admirer
of the Ku-Klux Klan because my Father was one of the great many
who cleansed our public offices of Negroes, carpetbaggers, and
scalawags. I can very well remember the Reconstruction Days when
the White people of the South were oppressed and mistreated by
this ungodly corruptible group. And it was this same group who
hated the Ku Klux Klan of that time. . . . I have watched the
Ku-Klux Klan in its ups and downs; I have also watched those who
so bitterly hate this great organization; have found the haters
alwayes had something in mind they wanted to keep covered up,
but they know each time when the Klan rises their evils will be
uncov