Ku Klux Klan Attack

Harper’s Weekly illustration showing an African American family threatened by a Ku Klux Klan member aiming a rifle in a doorway; 1872.

Man wearing a mask aiming a gun at an African-American family from the front door of their cabin

Courtesy of the Library of Congress

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