 But everyone in that community knew that the Klan had done it. I mean, it was technically not illegal to kill black people in this country until probably the 1970s or 80s when you started seeing white men actually convicted for doing that. You just usually knew that it was like the purge, you know, white people to blow off steam. The working class whites were sort of unleashed to kill at will and blow off steam that way because, of course, that kept them distracted from the fact that they were getting nothing from the planter class economically.