Lyman W. Denton - The Ku Klux Klan and the days of reconstruction or the Shadow of the Kennesaw, circa 1895.

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Lyman W. Denton - The Ku Klux Klan and the days of reconstruction or the Shadow of the Kennesaw, circa 1895.

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The collection consists of a typed manuscript of Denton's "The Ku Klux Klan and the Days of Reconstruction" or "The Shadow of the Kennesaw." A penned note in the beginning of the typed manuscript reads, "After a winters' residence in Atlanta, Georgia, about 75 years ago, the author wrote this account of the Ku Klux Klan." The account centers around Klan activities in the Kennesaw area.

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Ku Klux Klan 1915-....

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The Ku Klux Klan was formally incorporated under the laws of the state of Georgia on Dec. 4, 1915. The incorporated organization is a continuance of the earlier post Civil War Reconstruction Era unincorporated Ku Klux Klan and of the Knights of the White Camellia. Women of the Ku Klux Klan was incorporated at a late date as a separate entity. The stated purpose of the KKK was to promote an all White, Protestant United States, excluding all other races and religions. From the descript...

Denton, Lyman W.

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Lyman Denton was a New Yorker by birth and a medical doctor by profession. He wrote three books and wrote for a number of magazines. His manuscripts were given to various libraries ("Under the Magnolias" which is in Mississippi, "Two Bodies" which is at Duke University and "The Ku Klux Klan" which is at the University of Georgia Libraries). From the description of Lyman W. Denton - The Ku Klux Klan and the days of reconstruction or the Shadow of the Kennesaw, circa 1895. (University ...