The Terrible Mysteries of the Ku-Klux-Klan
Author : Edward H. Dixon
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Edward H. Dixon
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Edward H. Dixon
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780259312789
Excerpt from The Terrible Mysteries of the Ku-Klux-Klan Coming silently and swiftly into the most populous tracts Of the Southern country, it has taken the administration Of justice into its own hands, and made itself a terror to all evil-doers. It is especially the dread Of the Emancipated Slaves Of the Loyal Leagues, who attribute to it a supernatural origin and aid, believing that the dead soldiers Of the war rise at midnight and ride forth to slay. It is only positively known Of the eco-elna: K lam that it had its origin in Middle Tennessee some three months since; and thence it spread its branches, in various directions, through the South - some say wherever a Loyal League has been organized among the Freedmen. It is only necessary to read the terrible confession that follows, to be convinced Of its perfect truth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Edward H. Dixon
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781375408547
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Author : K. Stephen Prince
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1469614189
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the North assumed significant power to redefine the South, imagining a region rebuilt and modeled on northern society. The white South actively resisted these efforts, battling the legal strictures of Reconstruction on the ground. Meanwhile, white southern storytellers worked to recast the South's image, romanticizing the Lost Cause and heralding the birth of a New South. Prince argues that this cultural production was as important as political competition and economic striving in turning the South and the nation away from the egalitarian promises of Reconstruction and toward Jim Crow.
Author : Kristofer Allerfeldt
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 147662996X
Why do Americans alternately celebrate and condemn gangsters, outlaws and corrupt politicians? Why do they immortalize Al Capone while forgetting his more successful contemporaries George Remus or Roy Olmstead? Why are some public figures repudiated for their connections to the mob while others gain celebrity status? Drawing on historical accounts, the author analyzes the public's understanding of organized crime and questions some of our most deeply held assumptions about crime and its role in society.
Author : Harilaos Stecopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108586511
A History of the Literature of the U.S. South provides scholars with a dynamic and heterogeneous examination of southern writing from John Smith to Natasha Trethewey. Eschewing a master narrative limited to predictable authors and titles, the anthology adopts a variegated approach that emphasizes the cultural and political tensions crucial to the making of this regional literature. Certain chapters focus on major white writers (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, William Faulkner, the Agrarians, Cormac McCarthy), but a substantial portion of the work foregrounds the achievements of African American writers like Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sarah Wright to address the multiracial and transnational dimensions of this literary formation. Theoretically informed and historically aware, the volume's contributors collectively demonstrate how southern literature constitutes an aesthetic, cultural and political field that richly repays examination from a variety of critical perspectives.
Author : Kenneth Wayne Howell
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1574414496
Following the Civil War, the United States was fully engaged in a bloody conflict with ex-Confederates, conservative Democrats, and members of organized terrorist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, for control of the southern states. Texas became one of the earliest battleground states in the War of Reconstruction. Was the Reconstruction era in the Lone Star State simply a continuation of the Civil War? Evidence presented by sixteen contributors in this new anthology, edited by Kenneth W. Howell, argues that this indeed was the case. Topics include the role of the Freedmen's Bureau and the occ.
Author : Wyn Craig Wade
Publisher :
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195123579
Psychologist/historian Wyn Craig Wade traces the Ku Klux Klan from its beginnings after the Civil War to its present day activities, aligning with various neo-fascist and right-wing groups in the American West. THE FIERY CROSS provides an exhaustive analysis and long overdue perspective on this dark shadow of American society. Photos.
Author : Robert Kumamoto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 22,53 MB
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1317911458
When we think of American terrorism, it is modern, individual terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh that typically spring to mind. But terrorism has existed in America since the earliest days of the colonies, when small groups participated in organized and unlawful violence in the hope of creating a state of fear for their own political purposes. Using case studies of groups such as the Green Mountain Boys, the Mollie Maguires, and the North Carolina Regulators, as well as the more widely-known Sons of Liberty and the Ku Klux Klan, Robert Kumamoto introduces readers to the long history of terrorist activity in America. Sure to incite discussion and curiosity in anyone studying terrorism or early America, The Historical Origins of Terrorism in America brings together some of the most radical groups of the American past to show that a technique that we associate with modern atrocity actually has roots much farther back in the country’s national psyche.
Author : Elaine Frantz Parsons
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 16,32 MB
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1469625431
The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy. By parsing the earliest descriptions of the Klan, Elaine Frantz Parsons reveals that it was only as reports of the Tennessee Klan's mysterious and menacing activities began circulating in northern newspapers that whites enthusiastically formed their own Klan groups throughout the South. The spread of the Klan was thus intimately connected with the politics and mass media of the North. Shedding new light on the ideas that motivated the Klan, Parsons explores Klansmen's appropriation of images and language from northern urban forms such as minstrelsy, burlesque, and business culture. While the Klan sought to retain the prewar racial order, the figure of the Ku-Klux became a joint creation of northern popular cultural entrepreneurs and southern whites seeking, perversely and violently, to modernize the South. Innovative and packed with fresh insight, Parsons' book offers the definitive account of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.