“The spirit of Jefferson Davis lives!”

— Jefferson Davis

Trent Lott, speech before the Sons of Confederate Veterans (1984), as quoted in The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/N/Ne/Newton_Michael_-_The_Ku_Klux_Klan_in_Mississippi.pdf, by Michael Newton, p. 195.

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President of the Confederate States of America 1808–1889

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