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==Antebellum years==
==Antebellum years==
According to one account as recorded in Jimmy C. Cameron's book "Racism and Hate: An American Reality," Pike's pardoning by President [[Andrew Johnson]] (Confederate leaders were punished at the concluding of the Civil War) was due to an agreement made with Freemasons—when Pike, a high-ranking Mason, was exonerated from his punishment for treason that resulted from his treacherous Confederate leadership, Johnson was promoted from a third-degree to fourth-degree Mason.<ref name=cameron,p.50/>
According to one account as recorded in Jimmy C. Cameron's book "Racism and Hate: An American Reality," Pike's pardoning by President [[Andrew Johnson]] (Confederate leaders were punished at the concluding of the Civil War) was due to an agreement made with Freemasons—when Pike, a high-ranking Mason, was exonerated from his punishment for treason that resulted from his treacherous Confederate leadership, Johnson was promoted from a third-degree to fourth-degree Mason.<ref name=cameron,p.50/>
===Johnson impeachment===
:{{see also|Freemasonry and the Andrew Johnson presidency}}
===Ku Klux Klan and Masonic activities===
===Ku Klux Klan and Masonic activities===