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	You can tell what they did by what they do now. It ( B4iare crop.~

ping) has‘~n‘t changed a particle 8ince. About Christmas wa~ the time they U8ually 8ettled up. Nobody wae forced to remain a~ a servant. I know one thing, ~- Negroeß did not go to jail and penœ

itentiary like they do nowl
iai KLUX KLAN

	The Ku Klux Klan to the best of my knowledge went into actiori about the time shortly after the war when the amendment8 to the Constitution gave the Negroee the right to vote. I have 8een them at nightdre$56d up in their uniform. They would ‚~isit ev~ ery Negro‘~k~ s house in the coniunity. Some they would take out
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and whip, some they would 8care to death. They would ask for a

	drink of water and they had some way of drinking a whole bucket.. fui to iinpresb the Negroes that they were su~ernatura1. Negroee were very Buperstitiou8 then. Colonel Patterson who was a Re.. publicar and a colonel or general of the militia, white and col.. ored, under the governorship of Powell Clayton18topped the Opera.. tion of the Klan in this state. After his work, they ceased term rorizing the people.

POLITICAL OFFICIALS

	Many an ex-slave was elected sheriff, county clerk, probate c~ lerk, Pitichback~‘was elected governor in Louisiana. The first Ne~ gro congressman was from Mississippi and a Methodist preacher
This information given by	MO8eBE . Jeffrle8	~	(	)

‘~1aoe of Residence lllOlzardStreet,Ljttle ~qcr~s~~  — C ecupatiori Pl. aster er
Age ‘75