Which group used violence against African Americans during the late 1800s and early 1900s?

White supremacists used intimidation and violence to maintain racial control and oppose African Americans’ political and civil rights during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Ku Klux Klan was one example of a white supremacist group. Scalawags and carpetbaggers were names for groups involved in Reconstruction politics, not the group described here.

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