Category: Ku Klux Klan
Civil Rights Group Uses 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act to Go After Modern White Nationalist Terrorists
The 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act was passed to counter a growing wave of white supremacist terrorism during the Reconstruction Era. The law made individuals…
Nathan Bedford Forrest Day in Tennessee Honors Founder of Ku Klux Klan
On July 13, 2019 the governor of Tennessee issued a proclamation observing Nathan Bedford Forrest Day. Forrest was reputedly the first Grand Dragon and commander…
Carl Schurz Warned That a “System of Terrorism” Was Taking Hold in the Post-War South in 1865
Carl Schurz arrived in South Carolina in the middle of July, 1865. He had been sent by new president Andrew Johnson to investigate the condition…
Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture by Karen Cox
Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture by Karen Cox published by Florida University Press (2003). Hardcover $55.00,…
Video Lecture: The Rise of the Southern Conservative Response to Reconstruction and the Klu Klux Klan
Professor Robert Kenzer of the University of Richmond gives a lecture on the “rise of the Southern conservative response and the Klu Klux Klan.” Very…
Kommemorating the Klan’s Birthplace With a Backwards Plaque in Pulaski, Tn,
Six Confederate veterans created the Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, in Pulaski, Tennessee. Or maybe they didn’t. Much about the early months of…
The Prescript of the Ku Klux Klan 1867
The Prescript of the original Ku Klux Klan was adopted in Nashville in April 1867 and is available here. As with all documents from clandestine…
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