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[[File:Kkk-carpetbagger-cartoon.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A cartoon threatening that the KKK will lynch [[scalawag]]s (left) and [[carpetbagger]]s (right) on March 4, 1869, the day President Grant takes office. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, ''Independent Monitor'', September 1, 1868. A full-scale scholarly history analyzes the cartoonː Guy W. Hubbs, ''Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman'' (2015).<ref>Hubbs, Guy W. (May 15, 2015). [https://books.google.com/books?id=KIVoCQAAQBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s "Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman"]. University Alabama Press.</ref>]]

[[File:Kkk-carpetbagger-cartoon.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A cartoon threatening that the KKK will lynch [[scalawag]]s (left) and [[carpetbagger]]s (right) on March 4, 1869, the day President Grant takes office. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, ''Independent Monitor'', September 1, 1868. A full-scale scholarly history analyzes the cartoonː Guy W. Hubbs, ''Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman'' (2015).<ref>Hubbs, Guy W. (May 15, 2015). [https://books.google.com/books?id=KIVoCQAAQBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s "Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman"]. University Alabama Press.</ref> Note that the initials "KKK" are written on the side of a donkey, which is also the mascot of the Democrat Party, for which the KKK served as its original terrorist wing.]]

The '''Exalted Cyclops''' is a position within the [[hierarchy]] of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. The Ku Klux Klan is the militant [[terrorist]] arm of the [[American]] [[Democratic party]].<ref><small>Historian [[Eric Foner]] observed: "In effect, the Klan was a [[military]] force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired restoration of [[white supremacy]]. Its purposes were [[political]], but political in the broadest sense, for it sought to affect power relations, both public and private, throughout Southern society. It aimed to reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over [[the South]] during Reconstruction: to destroy the [[Republican party]]'s infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore [[racial]] subordination in every aspect of Southern life."</small>Eric Foner, ''Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877'' (1988), p. 425–426.</ref>

The '''Exalted Cyclops''' is a position within the [[hierarchy]] of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. The Ku Klux Klan is the militant [[terrorist]] arm of the [[American]] [[Democratic Party|Democrat Party]].<ref><small>Historian [[Eric Foner]] observed: "In effect, the Klan was a [[military]] force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired restoration of [[white supremacy]]. Its purposes were [[political]], but political in the broadest sense, for it sought to affect power relations, both public and private, throughout Southern society. It aimed to reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over [[the South]] during Reconstruction: to destroy the [[Republican party]]'s infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore [[racial]] subordination in every aspect of Southern life."</small>Eric Foner, ''Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877'' (1988), p. 425–426.</ref>

==Position==

==Position==

==Duties==

==Duties==

Groups of Klansmen were commissioned for "special activities." A Wrecking Crew is an action squad commissioned to take physical action against enemies and wayward members of the Klan. Depending on time and organization, these groups consisted of 5 to 8 members and were authorized either by the klokann, the Exalted Cyclops and/or the Kludd. Sometimes led by the Nighthawk. An action taken by the crew is wrecked. Some names used by wrecking crews include "Secret Six", "Ass-tear Squad" and "Holy terrors.".<ref>Michael and Judy Ann Newton eds. ''The Ku Klux Klan; an encyclopedia'', Garland Reference Library of the Social Science Vol.499, London and New York; Garland Publishing Inc. 1991, p.623.</ref><ref>Anti-Defamation League Danger: Extremism; New York; Anti-Defamation League 1996 e p.393.</ref>

Groups of Klansmen were commissioned for "special activities." A Wrecking Crew is an action squad commissioned to take physical action against enemies and wayward members of the Klan. Depending on time and organization, these groups consisted of five to eight members and were authorized either by the Klokann, the Exalted Cyclops and/or the Kludd. Sometimes led by the Nighthawk. An action taken by the crew is wrecked. Some names used by wrecking crews include "Secret Six", "Ass-tear Squad" and "Holy terrors.".<ref>Michael and Judy Ann Newton eds. ''The Ku Klux Klan; an encyclopedia'', Garland Reference Library of the Social Science Vol.499, London and New York; Garland Publishing Inc. 1991, p.623.</ref><ref>Anti-Defamation League Danger: Extremism; New York; Anti-Defamation League 1996 e p.393.</ref>

==See also==

==See also==

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