It Happened in Horry: The Ku Klux Klan in Horry County

When the KKK was formed after the Civil War, South Carolina was a hotbed of Klan violence. President Ulysses S. Grant suspended habeus corpus in several counties and used the Army to crush the Klan. Horry County was poor, sparsely populated, isolated and relatively unaffected by those events. When the…

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