Category: Ku Klux Klan
A Black Man Tells Congress What African Americans Faced in the South During Reconstruction: Henry Adams
During Reconstruction, African Americans formed committees to record the violation of human rights by various white supremacist organizations like the Knights of the White Camelia…
How the Klan Was Taught to Kids Before the 1980s
In the 1920s, Nathan Bedford Forrest’s grandson, who had the same name, attracted quite a bit of attention when he announced that he was setting…
Using the Media to Try to Control the Klan
By the time of 1868’s presidential campaign, the Ku Klux Klan had fastened itself onto America’s political imagination. In early 1866 the Klan did…
Kommercialization of the KKK: How Businesses and Charities Kashed In
I have been posting about Reconstruction for the last five years on Emerging Civil War, and several readers have asked me why so few of…
The Reconstruction Era Ku Klux Klan Constitution
The “first” American terrorist organization is believed to be the Ku Klux Klan. Although later Klan lore said the group was founded at Christmas 1865,…
Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform by Anne E. Marshall
Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform by Anne E. Marshall published by University of North Carolina…
Confederate Gen. Albert Pike Statue Re-erected in Washington
Confederate Brigadier General Albert Pike statue was re-erected in Washington on Saturday following an executive order from President Donald Trump. The statue had been attacked…
I Am Interviewed by Home Brew History on Reconstruction, the Black Codes and Even More
I was interviewed by Home Brew History on the Reconstruction Era, the Black Codes, and the Ku Klux Klan. You can watch the interview below:…
Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue Was Shrouded in this 1905 Illustration
This illustration, “Forrest Again in White Shroud,” was published in the newspaper Memphis Press-Scimitar on April 30, 1905. The illustration appeared just a month before…
Platform of the Ku Klux Klan Mississippi “A Government of White Men For White Men” March 1868
Here is a Mississippi paper’s publication of the platform of the KKK which focuses on the disenfranchisement of blacks. Many white conservative newspapers published Klan…