instructed to pay $10 for his initiation into the Klavaliers, as well as $1 a month to cover Klavalier expenses. He also had to buy a second hooded robe, to be dyed black. As a Klavalier, Kennedy worried that he would someday be ex- pected to inflict violence. But he soon discovered a central fact of life in the Klan-and of terrorism in general: most of the threatened vio- lence never goes beyond the threat stage. Consider lynching, the Klans hallmark sign of violence. Here, compiled by the Tuskegee Institute, are the decade-by-decade statis- tics on the lynching of blacks in the United States:     YEARS LYNCHINGS OF BLACKS   1890-1899 1,111   1900-1909 791   1910-1919 569   1920-1929 281   1930-1939 119   1940-1949 31   1950-1959 6   1960-1969 3     Bear in mind that these figures represent not only lynchings attrib- uted to the Ku Klux Klan but the total number of reported lynchings. The statistics reveal at least three noteworthy facts. The first is the ob- vious decrease in lynchings over time. The second is the absence of a correlation between lynchings and Klan membership: there were ac- tually more lynchings of blacks between 1900 and 1909, when the Klan was dormant, than during the 1920s, when the Klan had mil- lions of members-which suggests that the Ku Klux Klan carried out