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to destroy the Republican party,
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to destroy African-American autonomy,
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to destroy the African-American right to vote.
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And it will be organizations like the Ku Klux Klan,
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which had been around at least since 1866
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but are going to explode with fury in 1868.
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And between 1868 and 1871,
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the Klan and its many, many, many imitators
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will engage in a kind of violence-as-real-politics,
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to try to take back control of the political South.
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And I'll leave you there hanging, with good will.