Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and DisbandmentNeale Publishing Company, 1905 - 198 páginas The 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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... Reconstruction in Alabama , Ch . 16 , and ( West Virginia University ) Documents relating to Reconstruction , No. 3. - Editor . in many instances executed the most violent threats against the THE SPREAD OF THE KLAN 79.
... executed the most violent threats against the persons , fami- lies and property of men , whose sole crime was that they had been in the Confederate army . It cannot be truthfully denied that the Ku Klux committed excesses and were ...
... . 1 I have been told that in Tennessee several members of the Klan were executed by its orders for committing evil deeds under name of the Klan . -Editor . When the first impressions of awe and terror which the THE DECLINE 107.
... execute law instead of resisting it ; and to protect all good men , whether white or black , from the outrages and atrocities of bad men of both colors , who have been for the past three years a terror to society , and an injury to us ...
... this State . SEC . 3. Be it further enacted , That , for the purpose of facilitating the execution of the provisions of this act , it shall be the duty of the Prosecuting Attorneys of this State or grand jurors 114 KU KLUX KLAN.
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Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment John C. Lester,Daniel Love Wilson Vista completa - 1905 |
Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment John C. Lester,Daniel Love Wilson Vista completa - 1905 |