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Collection Reference Number GLC08872
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1870s 
Title Report of the joint select committee to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states
Date 1872
Author United States Congress (42nd, 2nd session: 1871-1872)  
Document Type Book
Content Description Published by the Government Printing Office. Explores the Ku Klux Klan, and contains witness reports regarding the number of Klan members, Klan initiation doctrines (including swearing oaths against the Union League), and other Klan activities. Includes detailed information pertaining to Reconstruction and economic conditions in the South.
Subjects Civil War  Reconstruction  Ku Klux Klan  Confederate States of America  African American History  Oath  Union Forces  Economics  
Place written Washington, D.C.
Theme Reconstruction; African Americans; Government & Politics; Banking & Economics
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945