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"There are no better markers of African-American political struggle and advance in the post-emancipation period than the vigilantism of the Ku Klux Klan. Like previous paramilitary outfits, Klans sought to enforce the general subordination of former slaves and to punish whites and blacks who challenged or threatened a variety of racially defined hierarchies. But Klans were particularly involved in combating the social and political repercussions of Radical Reconstruction, and their targets make up a roster of the individuals, institutions, and developments that made those repercussions tangible."— Steven Hahn, historian, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, 2003The idea in the excerpt most strongly suggests which of the following about the South in the 1860s and 1870s?

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