Ku Klux Klan collection, [ca. 1865-1921].

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Ku Klux Klan collection, [ca. 1865-1921].

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The collection consists of papers relating to the Ku Klux Klan from ca. 1865-1921. The early materials consist of handwritten warnings promising death to radicals; that radicals involved in Governor Bullocks politics will not survive in Washington County, Georgia; that "dead men tell no tales"; while one, decorated with coffins, daggers and rifles, mentions the "ghosts of the martyred dead" avenging their death on the living. Also includes a KKK application form (ca. 1921) asking for the person's occupation, religious affiliation, politics, and beliefs in white supremacy and "pure americanism" and a 1921 article from Leslie's Weekly discussing the re-emergence of the KKK.

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Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)

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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...

Bullock, Rufus B. (Rufus Brown), 1834-1907

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Rufus Brown Bullock was born in Bethlehem, Albany Co., N. Y. He supervised building of telegraph line between N.Y. and the South and in 1859 was employed by the Adams Express Company (later Southern Express Company), and moved to Augusta, Ga. During the Civil War, he remained in Georgia, becoming a telegraph expert for the Confederacy. After the war he returned to Augusta and resumed his duties at Southern Express company and was also president of the Macon & Augusta Railroad. In 1868 he was...