== Racist/pro-KKK/one hundred year sources that should be in embarrassment to anyone that has edited this article. == 

 Why does this article use literally one hundred year old sources that defend the  KKK?  Does the paragraph below sound like it is from a neutral reliable source?????????? 

 "Such being the character of the negro government of South Carolina such the motives and conduct of its agents it naturally became stench in the nostrils of decent people and a disgrace to the country The Federal bayonets removed the power of the thieves the so called government fell to pieces of its own imbecility came to nought of its own all pervading corruption Negro domination had proven as well an injury to the black race as an to the white an experiment always doomed to failure the device of those who in the name of freedom and justice had inaugurated and sustained a government that was never worthy of the..." 

 That is a quote from the last paragraph of a book that is being used as a major source in one of the subsections of this article. 

 The presence of such sources in this article is an embarrassment to anyone who has ever edited this article.