This classic image by Thomas Nast graphically illustrates the plight of freedmen in the years after the war. Flanked by a lynching and a burning school house, a couple huddles over their lifeless child. The reason for their troubles? The reign of terror maintained by many Southern whites, through organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and the White Leagues, in the name of their "Lost Cause" and the perpetuation of a "White Man's Government."