In his 1902 book, A History of the American People, Woodrow Wilson described the Ku Klux Klan as a “veritable empire of the South” that emerged to protect Southern whites. The text claimed, “The white men of the South were aroused by the mere instinct of self-preservation… to rid themselves… of the intolerable burden of governments sustained by the votes of ignorant negroes

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