Tag: alabama
General Meade Outlaws Ku Klux Propaganda April 1868
On April 7, 1868 New York Times reported on an effort by General George Gordon Meade to halt pro-Klan propaganda efforts . Meade had commanded…
Murder of Judge Inconveniences Young People Hoping to Marry-KKK Attack October 1868
The Pulaski Citizen was the first newspaper to express sympathy for the Ku Klux Klan. Its pages provided the original impulse for the expansion of…
“An unwavering advocate for the supremacy of the Caucasian race”
I found this ad for a newspaper called The Independent Monitor in the Mobile Register. It states right up front that this is a Whites-Only…
The Tuscaloosa Independent Monitor “Takes its stand” as a “White Man’s Newspaper” March 1869
I found this ad in the Mobile Register. The Independent Monitor was founded in 1837 and it went out of business in 1872. The newspaper,…
“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…
White Immigrants Needed to Replace the Dying Black Race Alabama January 1869
Many Southern newspapers, which had once mocked the Union army as filled with immigrants, came out in favor of encouraging immigration to the South after…