Category: White Terror
How Did American History Textbooks Remember the Ku Klux Klan?
The recent book Remembering Reconstruction has an essay titled “The Cultural Work of the Ku-Klux Klan in US History Textbooks, 1883–2015” by Elaine Parsons. The…
Smithsonian: Free Resources for Understanding the History of Racism in the U.S.
The Smithsonian has put together a great collection of free resources for understanding the history of racism in the United States. There are links to…
When Grant Literally Decapitated Seymour (at least Cartoon Grant did)! Nov. 1868
By the evening of November 3, 1868 it was pretty clear to most informed observers that Ulysses S. Grant had been elected president. If you…
December 1868 Grant Investigates Political Violence in Arkansas
After the Civil War Ulysses S. Grant continued to command the United States Army. As president elect in 1868 Grant sent his trusted aide Horace…
Courageous Journalist Ida B. Wells Honored by Pulitzer Prize Committee for Struggle Against Lynching
Ida B. Wells was one of the strongest voices for Black freedom during the Jim Crow Era. An outstanding journalist, she campaigned against lynching alongside…
When Black and White Refugees Fled to Atlanta to Escape the Klan May 1869
Political and racial violence in the Reconstruction Era South was a factor in setting Southerners, Black and white, into motion as refugees. Ku Klux attacks…
“…our friend is dead. He was foully murdered by the Ku-Klux ” A Klan Killing of a Carolina State Senator
This letter was sent from Albion Tourgee to Gen. Joseph Abott reporting a killing of a Republican legislator in North Carolina in the Spring of…
Taking Practical Steps Against Miscegenation: John Walthall’s Murder in Georgia 1871
On October 21, 1871 Maria Carter, an African American woman, testified before the Joint Select Committee of Congress on the killing of John Walthall in…
April 1867 First Ku Klux Klan Convention Held in Nashville’s Maxwell House
The founding of America’s oldest terrorist group, the Ku Klux Klan, is shrouded in myth and legend. While Klan lore places its first meeting on…
“They hung three or four negroes nearly dead” The Ku Klux in Florence, Ala. Nov. 26, 1868
This account of a Ku Klux Klan occupation of Florence comes from the Democratic newspaper the Daily Phoenix. It was originally published in the Memphis…
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