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  • 1920s: The Ku Klux Klan, a post-Civil War terrorist organization that works to suppress blacks with threats, property destruction, and murder, is reorganized after having been disbanded for fifty years, and begins a new campaign of lynching.

    Today: The Ku Klux Klan still exists, but its violent activities are limited in favor of political activity.

  • 1920s: Artists like Pablo Picasso and Jean Toomer create works with a distorted sense of reality, working...

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