Tag: kkk
New Resource on Reconstruction Era Ku Klux Klan from Gilder-Lehrman Institute
The Gilder-Lehrman Institute has a new essay describing the rise and fall of the Reconstruction Era Ku Klux Klan. Elaine S. Frantz of Kent State…
The First Time the Ku Klux Klan Was Covered in a National Newspaper Was for a Murder Jan. 18, 1868
While the Ku Klux Klan would later claim that it had begun life on Christmas Eve, 1865, historians now believe it started six months later….
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…
Posted in Ku Klux Klan
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…
Recent Comments