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Page 12345  Imagemap: link to IRC Credits  Grant Faces Erupting
Racial Violence  Grant, like Lincoln before him, was committed
to national reconciliation. His campaign slogan was "Let Us Have
Peace." But even as he campaigned, racial violence broke out all
over the South. The chief instrument of intimidation was the Ku
Klux Klan.  [Picture of Klan members]  The Klan was founded in
Tennessee right after the war, and grew strongest in areas where
blacks were politically active. Blacks and their white political
allies, called Scalawags, if they were from the South, and
Carpetbaggers, if from the North, governed the Reconstruction
South, with whites holding most of the high offices. Although
blacks themselves never co