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This is an excerpt from testimony given by teacher Sarah Allen to a special committee of the U.S. Congress investigating the Ku Klux Klan in 1871. Allen describes how the Klan threatened her after she was brought by the Freedman's Bureau from Illinois to Mississippi to teach newly freed enslaved people."I taught six weeks, until I think the 18th of March, when I was told to leave; warned to leave between 1 and 2 o'clock at night by about fifty men, I think; they were disguised . . . They told me to get up. I went to the window and asked them what they wanted. They said I should leave . . . Monday morning. That was Saturday evening . . . They did not want radicals there in the South; did not want northern people teaching there; they thought the colored people could educate themselves if they needed any education . . . they [wore] long white robes, a loose mask covered the face, trimmed with scarlet stripes. The

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