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were indicted for Klan violence--murder, intimidation, torture
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Thousands were arrested
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Many of those 3000 indicted pleaded guilty and got suspended sentences
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About 600 were convicted, 250 acquitted
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Most received fines or light jail sentences
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Sixty-five people were imprisoned for up to five years
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in a federal penitentiary in Albany, New York
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All of them were out by 1875, before the Cruikshank Case
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The thousands of people murdered by the Klan,
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the thousands tortured, the thousands kept from voting--
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sixty-five people were prosecuted
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If you think back to the other day,