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7 Fisk University at Nashville, opened 1866, chartered......1867 Petition for removal of disabilities, signed by nearly 4,000 citizens, including leading men of the State, is presented to the legislature, but not granted......1868 Act to suppress the Ku-klux Klan, entitled An act to preserve the public peace, punishes membership by a fine of not less than $500 or imprisonment for five years......1868 University of the South at Suwanee, chartered in 1858, opened......1868 Governor Brownlow calls out the State militia to suppress the Ku-klux Klan, and proclaims martial law in nine counties......Feb. 20, 1869 Southern Commercial Convention held at Memphis; 1,100 delegates from twenty-two States......May 18, 1869 Constitution, framed by a convention which sat at Nashville, Jan. 10 to Feb. 22, ratified by a popular vote of 98,128 to 33,872......March 26, 1870 Colored Methodist Episcopal Church of America organized at Jackson by Bishop Paine......Dec. 16, 1870 Off