In July 1867, almost two years after moving to Wilmington, Galloway spoke for an hour during a mass meeting in downtown Wilmington, warning freedmen of a growing danger: a militant new white supremacist threat had emerged in parts of the South, including North Carolina, that was more menacing and more violent than the Home Guard. A secretive band of former Confederate soldiers and white supremacists called themselves, variously, the White Brotherhood, or the Constitutional Union Guards or, more commonly, the Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan.
