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Many of these organizations survive to this day. Membership in the League is exclusive, and is comprised of the society's elite. Union League buildings also serve as venues for lavish social events. During Reconstruction , Union Leagues were formed all across the South after 1867 as working auxiliaries of the Republican party. They mobilized freedmen to register to vote and to vote Republican. They discussed political issues, promoted civic projects, and mobilized workers opposed to certain white employers. Most branches were segregated but there were a few that were racially integrated. The leaders of the all-black units were mostly urban Blacks from the North, who had never been slaves. Foner (p 283) says "virtually every Black voter in the South had enrolled." Black League members were special targets of the Ku Klux Klan 's violence and intimidation, so the Leagues organized informal armed defense units. REFERENCES
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