The Ku Klux Klan: Terror in the South (Part 2)

三K党:南方的恐怖(第二部分)

The Rest Is History

2026-03-26

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How and why did the terrible violence of the Ku Klux Klan escalate? What was the political context in America for their rising popularity? And, how was this first iteration of the Klan finally brought down? Join Dominic and Tom as they discuss American politics after the Civil War, the growing popularity of the Ku Klux Klan in the American south and their increasingly barbaric treatment of freedmen, as well as their final destruction…     _______ Advertise with us: Partnerships@goalhanger.com _______ To read our new newsletter, sign up at: therestishistory.com/newsletters _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Video Editors: Jack Meek, Harry Swan + Adam Thornton   Social Producer: Harry Balden Producers: Tabby Syrett & Aaliyah Akude  Senior Producer: Callum Hill  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • We have come.

  • We are here.

  • Beware.

  • Take heed.

  • When the black cat is gliding under the shadows of darkness,

  • and the death watch ticks at the lone hour of night, then we, the pale riders, are abroad.

  • Speak in whispers, and we hear you.

  • Dream as you sleep in the inmost recesses of your house.

  • And hovering over your beds, we gather your sleeping thoughts while our daggers are at your throat.

  • Ravisher of liberties of the people for whom we died and yet live, be gone ere it is too late.

  • Unholy blacks, cursed of God, take warning and fly.

  • Twice has the sacred serpent hissed.

  • When again his voice is heard, your doom is sealed.

  • Beware.

  • Take heed.

  • To be executed by a white death and rattling skeleton.

  • At ten tonight.

  • K. K. K. So that was a chilling warning sent to the Sheriff of Jackson County,

  • Arkansas, as reported in the Little Rock Morning Republican on the 13th of May, 1868.

  • And those three letters KKK stand, of course, for the Ku Klux Klan.