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Article: The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872.
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 1997
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The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872, by Lou Falkner Williams. Studies in the Legal History of the South, edited by Paul Finkelman and Kermit L. Hall. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xiii, 197 pp. $35.00.
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