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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... interest to examine the personnel of the original Pulaski Circle , out of which the Klan developed . ( See P. 52 ) . There were six young men in the party that first began to meet in the fall and winter of 1865 : ( 1 ) Captain John C ...
... interest . The cartoon opposite p . 192 is taken from the Independent Monitor of Tuscaloosa , Alabama , a Ku Klux news- paper . The hanging carpetbagger was Rev. A. S. Lakin , of Ohio , a Northern Methodist missionary to the negroes ...
... interest , but it is necessary to de- scribe it somewhat minutely , because of its bearing on subsequent events . When the war ended , the young men of Pulaski , who had escaped death on the battlefield , returned home and passed ...
... existence of the Klan in town had done . The same cause rekindled the waning interest of the town people . Every issue of the local papers in the " infected regions " bristled with highly mysterious and exciting THE SPREAD of the KLAN 69.
... interests of the order . Therefore , in the exercise of that power , the Grand Wizard declared that the organization heretofore known as the Ku Klux Klan was dissolved and disbanded . Members were directed to burn all regalia and ...
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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 |