Joint Select Committee of Congress
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Total Pages: 640
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This book contains the full text of an 1871 U.S. Congressional Joint Select Committee investigation into conditions in the South, with particular emphasis on race relations. The report, originally published in 1872, focuses on the Ku Klux Klan and its involvement in the late Insurrectionary States, as the Southern states were known at the time. This document includes interviews with government officials and ordinary citizens specifically about the Klan. Though the report is most known for its investigation into the Ku Klux Klan, it also contains a substantial account of the economics and the voting history of the South. This examination offers a broad, informative look at tensions in the Southern states following the Civil War.