One white man was beaten up by the Ku Klux Klan for teaching at a school for African Americans not long after the Civil War. He later had his sweet revenge!

>On the night of March 9, 1871, in Aberdeen, a Northern teacher named Allen P. Huggins was called out of his house by a circle of white-robed men. They were “gentlemanly fellows, men of cultivation, well-educated, a much different class of men than I ever supposed I would meet in a K-Klux gang,” Huggins said, but their message was not gentle. They told him they did not like his “radical ways” and the fact that he had instituted public schooling and was trying to “educate the Negroes.” He had ten days to leave the state or they would kill him. >Huggins replied he would leave when he was ready. In response, one of the men undid a stirrup leather from his horse and began to beat Huggins with it, saying he was “just such a man as they liked to pound.” On the seventy-fifth blow, Huggins passed out. He came to with pistols aimed at him and a chorus of voices warning him that if they laid eyes on him after ten days, he was dead. The beating left Huggins hobbled for a week but unbowed; he testified to the event before Congress and returned deputized as a U.S. marshal and began to round up Klanners for arrest. _______________________________ **Source:** Jenkins, Sally, and John Stauffer. “Reconstruction and Redemption.” *The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded from the Confederacy*. Anchor Books, 2010. 258. Print. ___________________________ **If you enjoy this type of content, please consider donating to my [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/HistoryLockeBox)!**