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By an unparalleled audacity colored citizens were expelled from the Legislature simply on account of color, while the orgies of the Ku-Klux-Klan prevailed throughout the State.
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Sumner condemns the expulsion of citizens from the Legislature based on race, highlighting the violence of the Ku-Klux-Klan.
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