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380~B to have grown in application as the organization changed from a moral association of the best citizens of the South and gradually came under the control of lawless persons with lawless methods—...whipping and imirdering. It is antecedently reasonable that the change in names accompanying a change in policy would be due to a fitness in the prior use of the na~.

The recent use of the name seems mostly imitation and propaganda, Histories, encyclopedias, and dictionaries, in general, do not record a

meaning of the term Ku. Klux as prior to the Reconstruction period.