Report of the Joint select committee appointed to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, so far as regards the execution of laws, and the safety of the lives and property of the citizens of the United States and Testimony taken

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.