Papers, 1865-1925.

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Papers, 1865-1925.

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Correspondence, legal papers, financial documents, genealogical records, and school reports, relating to Philip Thomas Lyon and his family from Danville, Va. Correspondence (1892-1904) consists chiefly of business letters of Lyon and the firm Lyon and Goodson. Legal papers concern land sales, insurance, tobacco, and the formation in 1921 in Fulton County, Ga., of a Klan, a subordinate organization of the Knights of the Klu Klux Klan. Printed materials include a set of bylaws for a Klan. Financial records chiefly concern tobacco sales and payments to the Fraternal Mystic Circle, a mutual protection association in Virginia. Also includes genealogical records on the Lyon family; school reports from Yanceville, Va.; an account book, a daybook, and a cash sales book; a photograph of Philip Thomas Lyon; and various items relating to religious life in Danville.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7348769

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Lyon family.

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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...

Fraternal Mystic Circle.

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Lyon, Philip Thomas, d. 1924.

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Tobacco merchant in Danville, Va. From the description of Papers, 1865-1925. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 33205010 ...

Lyon and Goodson Tobacco Company

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