Separate coach laws were declared by the Supreme Court to be constitutional.

State Constitutions were revised and so amended as to nullify the amendment of the Federal Constitution, giving the negro the right to vote.
More than sixty thousand defenseless negroes were unlawfully slain.
Governors would announce publicly that they favored lynching.

The Federal Government would get elected to power by condemning these outrages, and when there, would confess its utter helplessness.

One President plainly declared, what was already well known, 'that the only thing that they could do, would be to create a healthy sentiment.' This secret organization of which we have been speaking decided that some means must be found to do what the General Government could not do, because of a defect in the Constitution.

They decided to organize a General Government that would protect the negro in his rights.