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Title	Monthly Report, March 1868
Record type	report
Creator	unattributed
Date of creation	1868-04-06
Series	Records of the field offices for the State of Tennessee, 1865-1872 T142
Description	Report of the Operations of the Bureau in the Nashville Sub District for the month ending March, 31, 1868. Agent J. K. Nelson, reports from Murfreesboro, Tenn. of increased Ku Klux Klan activities.
Additional notes	Series T142, Reel 41, [Frame unknown] [Pages are not numbered; this document can be found in the 98th report on the roll, on the 5th page. Best to search by date.]
Excerpt from record	"During this month the Freedmen have been feeling perhaps more severely than ever, since their emancipation, the heavy hand of oppression. That secret armed Rebel Military organization known as the "Ku Klux Klan" is increasing in numbers and extending to all parts of my agency. The continue their midnight prowlings in hand of ten to fifteen each neighborhood it seemed furnishing its own detachment and warning those whom they have particular spite to leave the Country at once or be murdered."
Geographic location	Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Rutherford County (Tenn.)
Names that occur in the record	Nelson, J. K. Nelson, James K. Oakley Merchant, Thomas Childers, Lee Douglas, A. B. Clinton McCain, F. K. B.
Subject (LC)	African Americans--Tennessee--Social conditions--19th century Ku Klux Klan (1866-1869) Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Race relations Racism Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Tennessee--Rutherford County Rutherford County (Tenn.) United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands--Records and correspondence
Coverage	1860-1869
Contributing institution	National Archives and Records Administration
Medium	microfilm
Bibliographic citation	[Document title, date]. Records of the field offices for the State of Tennessee. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872. Series T142, [Reel number, Frame number/s]. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Copyright status	Public domain
Collection name	Freedman's Bureau Records