Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and DisbandmentThe KKK's early history from its formation to its first disbandment is revealed with astonishing detail - writing in 1905, the author includes eyewitness accounts from those alive at the time. Following the American Civil War, the emancipation of black Americans occurred - the peoples formerly owned by plantation owners and farmers were accorded freedom, citizenship and rights as citizens of the United States. However, a segment of the population were unhappy with the emancipation of the enslaved - a desire for white domination led many, particularly in the Deep South, to perpetrate violence, mischief and murder. In the southern states, six former officers of the Confederate States of America formed the Ku Klux Klan. Intentionally shrouding the initiation ceremonies, doctrines and customs in mystery, the group was formed to amuse its members and attract public curiosity. Only later, as the group gained in membership and perpetrated violent and murderous acts, did their white hoods and rituals acquire notoriety and become synonymous with white supremacy and menace against the black minority. This book details the formation and progress of the 1st Klan, which operated between the years 1865 and 1871. Authored in 1905, it benefits from eyewitness accounts; at the time, the KKK's first appearance was within living memory, thought a curious event firmly confined to the past. However, a decade after Fleming published this book the KKK was revived, becoming far larger than before. Although overshadowed by later events, histories such as Fleming's shed light on an era of upheaval. Backlash against emancipation was anticipated, and the KKK was not the only extra-judicial group of its kind; although such organizations successfully intimidated many blacks into departing politics, laws and crackdowns by the government contained the organization, albeit temporarily. |
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... copy of the original Prescript was shown to him and he was able to say that he had never seen it before . In his day , the Revised and Amended Prescript was used , which was never dis- covered by any investigating committee . He ...
... copies for distribution through- out Ohio during the Seymour - Grant cam- paign . Not only this , but a Columbus , Ohio , paper also issued a large edition . " The cartoon opposite p . 113 is repro- duced from " The Loil Legislature ...
... copy was sent , without notice or explan- ation , from Memphis to the Grand Cyclops of each Den . It must have been ... copy of the Revised and Amended Prescript . " 1 1 It is the copy he refers to that is reproduced in Appendix II ...
... copy of the original Prescript printed in the office of the Pul- aski ( Tennessee ) Citizen , L. W. McCord , proprietor , in 1868. I was a printer boy , and with John H. Kirk , the father of the Rev. Harry Kirk , recently of Nashville ...
... copy of the original copy is known to be in existence . That one was used by Ryland Randolph , of Tuscaloosa , Alabama , formerly Grand Giant of a province of the order , and was given to me by him . It is a little brown pam- phlet of ...