Category: White Supremacy
What Klansmen Ate in 1868
The Memphis Avalanche was one of the most pro-KKK newspapers in the country. This article from the Avalanche is poking fun at African Americans and…
Were the Ku Klux Ghosts of Confederate Soldiers? Mississippi 1868
This article announces the arrival of the KKK in Grenada, Miss. through the mockery of a black preacher. In the article “Uncle Ike” (older African…
“A Lodge of That Famous Klan Will Soon Be Formed In Every Village” Tenn. March, 1868
As the Ku Klux Klan garnered national headlines for its terrorism in 1868, many white-owned Southern newspapers took the side of the Klan. They were…
Book Review: They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers published by Yale University Press (2019) 320 pages. $30.00…
Torturing a Black Man: The First New York Times Article on the Klan January 1868
On January 20, 1868 The New York Times published its first article on the KKK, which it referred to as the “Kuklux Klan”. Members of…
Podcast: Did You Know That Disney Hired a Communist to Help Prepare the Script for “Song of the South”?
The podcast “You Must Remember This” continues its series on Disney’s song of the South. Walt Disney knew he was going to get criticized as…
After Longstreet’s Infamous Letter Endorsing Black Civil Rights, the Destruction of His Reputation Began
This morning, I posted Gen. James Longstreet’s “infamous letter” in which he called on Southern whites to accept that the Confederacy had lost the war…
The Lost Cause that Built Jim Crow: Henry Louis Gates in the NY Times
Professor Henry Louis Gates has an interesting article in today’s New York Times that examines the role of the Lost Cause and Redeemer narratives in…
The Scientific Defense of the Segregation of Southern Schools by Race
From the conservative Democratic newspaper the Yorkville Enquirer comes the opinion of science in favor of racial segregation and white superiority. This South Carolina newspaper…
Definition of Scalawag: A “Southron who…lives upon the sickening odors of negro love.”
“Scalawag” was a derogatory term for white Southerners who joined the Republican Party or otherwise aided in the Reconstruction project of the Federal government. Scalawags…
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