reports of the U.S. Congress on Southern outrages

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Reconstruction-era document congressional report historical source

The "reports of the U.S. Congress on Southern outrages" are official post–Civil War congressional investigations documenting violence and intimidation against African Americans and Republicans in the Reconstruction-era South.

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Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Reconstruction-era document ⓘ congressional report ⓘ historical source ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	Southern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ former Confederate states ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
documented	arson ⓘ attacks on Black officeholders ⓘ attacks on white Southern Republicans ⓘ lynching ⓘ murders ⓘ threats and intimidation ⓘ whippings ⓘ
genre	congressional hearing record ⓘ investigative report ⓘ
historicalSignificance	evidence of organized white supremacist terrorism in the South ⓘ key documentation of Reconstruction-era racial and political violence ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
legislativeBody	United States House of Representatives ⓘ United States Senate ⓘ
mainSubject	Ku Klux Klan violence ⓘ Reconstruction ⓘ Reconstruction-era civil rights ⓘ political intimidation in the American South ⓘ racial violence in the United States ⓘ suppression of Republican voters ⓘ violence against African Americans ⓘ
perpetratorGroupDescribed	Ku Klux Klan NERFINISHED ⓘ other white supremacist groups in the South ⓘ
politicalContext	Democratic resistance in the South ⓘ Republican-controlled Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ
publisher	United States Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ
purpose	to document intimidation of Republican voters ⓘ to investigate violence against African Americans in the South ⓘ to provide evidence for federal enforcement legislation ⓘ
relatedTo	Enforcement Acts NERFINISHED ⓘ Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution NERFINISHED ⓘ Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution NERFINISHED ⓘ Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 NERFINISHED ⓘ
targetGroupDescribed	African American freedpeople ⓘ white Southern Republicans ⓘ
temporalCoverage	Reconstruction era ⓘ post–Civil War period ⓘ
usedAs	evidence in debates over Reconstruction policy ⓘ primary source for historians of Reconstruction ⓘ

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