Category: Ku Klux Klan
Podcast: Kidada Williams on the History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
Chris Hayes of MSNBC interviewed Professor Kidada E. Williams about her new book “I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the…
October 17, 1871 Pres. Grant Suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus in Part of South Carolina
On October 17, 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant suspended Habeas Corpus in nine counties in South Carolina. Over the previous year the Ku Klux Klan…
As Black Power Grew, Violence Increased to Suppress It
Clyde W. Ford is an award-winning author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. His latest book is Of Blood and Sweat:…
Historic Brattonsville in York County SC Now Tells Important Reconstruction Klan Story
Historic Brattonsville in York County, South Carolina, has created a new exhibit on the Reconstruction Era at Brick House on the old plantation’s property. South…
Around the Web April 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
March was a most unusual month for me. I spent the last third of it hospitalized at the NYU hosital in Mineola, on Long Island….
Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Grandson Helped Run the Revived Klan and Klan Kollege
We know that sons often went into the same occupations as their fathers and grandfathers back in the day, but they also could see running…
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis, Published by Fordham University Press (2022) Freedoms…
Historic Brattonsville Opening Reconstruction Era General Store to Tell Story of a Murder
Historic Brattonsville in York County, South Carolina is restoring a general store that was the scene of an inquest into the killing of James Williams,…
Kansas School District Blocks Circulation of Book on Reconstruction Era Klan
The Goddard School District in Kansas has been accused of book banning after it announced that 29 books would no longer be allowed to circulate…
Sons of Confederate Veterans Ceremoniously Rebury Nathan Bedford Forrest
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate General, a slave trader, and a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Buried under an equestrian statue of himself…