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How did Southern citizens react to changes in rights for African Americans?

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They had varied responses
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Historians describe white Southerners' varied responses to emancipation and the issue of civil rights, and describe the thinking that gave rise to white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.
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