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Historian of Civil War & Reconstruction. Bicyclist, baker, 3d favorite human of Banjo the dog. Views=mine, RT≠endorsement
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White Ohioan threatened by white supremacist terrorists, 1868 edition

Image depicting 2 figures hanging by their necks from the limb of a tree, as a mule labeled "K.K.K." walks away. "A cartoon from the September 1, 1868, issue of the Tuscaloosa Independent Monitor. The lynched images represent two educators: Arad S. Lakin, right, a Methodist minister and "carpetbagger" from Ohio who had just been named president of the University of Alabama, and Noah B. Cloud, a southern-born Republican, or "scalawag," politician serving as Superintendent of Public Instruction of Alabama. The mule is marked with the initials of the Ku Klux Klan, and the image serves as a threat to enemies of the Klan." Image and description from https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/media/klan-cartoon-1868/
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