One newspaper, the Raleigh Sentinel, was incredibly pro-Klan and they often would write stories celebrating the Klan and their goals. The Greensboro Patriot is another newspaper that glorified the Klan. Sometimes the paper would claim that atrocities were committed by blacks or Republicans, and these were given as excuses to recruit new Klan members and continue acts of violence.
These newspapers and others exalted the use of the Klan against blacks and Republicans and encouraged people to join in their efforts. These public outcries for support of the Klan and its members show the extent of approval given to members and their unlawful deeds. Klansmen might parade on horseback at night dressed in outlandish costumes, or they might threaten specific Republican leaders with violence.
Increasingly during these actions became violent, ranging from whippings of Black women perceived as insolent to the assassination of Republican leaders. It is impossible to untangle local vigilante violence from political terrorism by the organized Klan, but it is clear that attacks on Blacks became common during The political terrorism was effective.
While Republican gubernatorial candidate Rufus Bullock carried the state in April elections, by November Democratic presidential candidate Horatio Seymour was in the lead. In some counties the contrast was incredible. In Columbia County armed Klansmen not only intimidated voters but even cowed federal soldiers sent to guard the polling place.
Not surprisingly, while 1, votes had been cast in Columbia County for Republican governor Rufus Bullock in April, only one vote was cast for Republican presidential candidate Ulysses Grant in November Black churches and schools were burned, teachers were attacked, and freedpeople who refused to show proper deference were beaten and killed. But, Black Georgians fought their attackers, rebuilt their churches and schools, and shot back during attacks on their communities.
While these attacks surely terrorized some freedpeople, they failed to destroy the cultural and social independence Blacks had gained with emancipation. While John B. Gordon may have left the Klan by late , Klan activity clearly continued throughout and After the Klan-supported Democratic triumph in the state elections of , the formal Klan organization began to fade away with aggressive federal intervention in and On May 22, , former Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry was sentenced to life in prison for the Alabama church bombing that killed four African-American girls.
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