Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, made to the two Houses of Congress February 19, 1872

A Joint Congressional Report of a select committee investigating lawlessness, abuses and intimidation by Ku Kluxers and others. Some topics were restriction of voting, processes of justice (such as grand juries and jails), educational access, the press, rewards for bringing violators to justice, freedom to work for skilled laborers, torchings, beatings, killings and night raids, etc.