The later movements were distinctly but cautiously anti-Negro.

There was most irritation in the white counties where there were large numbers of Negroes.

Negro schools and churches were burned because they served as meeting places for Negro political organizations.

The color line began to be more and more sharply drawn.

Social and business ostracism continued to be employed against white radicals, while the Negroes were discharged from employment or were driven from their rented farms.
The Ku Klux movement, it is to be noted in retrospect, originated as an effort to restore order in the war-stricken Southern States.