Nativism and Bigotry
Ku Klux Klan

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Army officers pose in KKK uniforms captured in
Huntsville, Alabama. Harper's Weekly, Feb. 19, 1868.
 KKK in Mississippi 1871

 
 
 

 
 
   

 

Testimony of Washington Willis (colored) Nov. 17, 1871: He was invited to join KKK which had other Black members
The Ku-Klux Klan, Richmond Whig, March 17, 1868, 2
The Ku Klux Klan, Times Picayune, March 18, 1868, 1
High Handed Outrages by the Ku Klux Klan, New York Tribune, March 30, 1868, 1
Negro Ku-Klux, Savannah Morning News, March 8, 1870
Ku-Klux in Georgia, New York Sun, July 11, 1871, 1
Raid on a camp of the Outlaws (New York Tribune, Sept. 12, 1871, 1)
Raid on Ku-Klux camp (Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Sept. 12, 1871, 5)

Killed in a Mask, Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Dec. 24 1879, 1
A North Carolina Tragedy, Charleston News & Courier, Nov. 11, 1883
Lynched By Negroes, Florida Times-Union, July 2, 1892

The Ku Klux Klan
The Downfall of the Klan in the 1920s


D. C. Stephenson Trial (1925)