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Nemesis letters
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Oglesby, T. K. |
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Dates: |
circa 1913 |
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The collection consists of four handwritten copies of Nemesis letters originally published by T. M. Norwood in the Augusta
chronicle and Sentinel (Augusta, Georgia) in 1871. The collection also consists of an explanatory letter: dated Augusta, Georgia,
Dec. 24, 1913, to Mr. W. J. De Renne, signed "T. K. Oglesby."
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ms1650 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Ku Klux Klan collection
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Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.) |
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Dates: |
circa 1865-1961 |
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The collection consists of materials relating to the Ku Klux Klan circa 1865-1921. Early materials include one Ku Klux Klan
notice (Union County, Georgia, circa 1865), decorated with coffins, daggers and rifles, mentioning the "ghosts of the martyred
dead" avenging their death on the living; two handwritten warnings (circa 1870, unsigned) stating "Beware!", and "dead men
tell no tales"; and reproductions of three warning letters addressed to B.D. Evans, Col. Evans, and one not addressed (Headquarters,
Ogeechee, Georgia, circa 1871), signed KKK and U.S. KK, promising death to radicals, and that radicals involved in Governor
Bullocks politics will not survive in Washington County, Georgia. Also includes an Invisible Empire of the Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan of Atlanta, Georgia application form, circa 1921; an article titled "A Nightgown Tyranny", written by William
G. Shepherd ("Leslie's Weekly, Sept. 10, 1921") discussing the re-emergence of the KKK; a reprint of an article titled "Protest
Under the Cross: The Ku Klux Klan Presents its Case to the Public, 1960" by Donald E. Williams; and a pamphlet titled "The
Attitude of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Toward the Jew" by H. W. Evans, Imperial Wizard Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
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ms582 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Board of Visitors appointment to the annual examination of Atlanta University
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Corson, H. C. |
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Dates: |
1871 June 2 |
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The collection consists of a document dated 2 June 1871 that appoints a board of visitors to attend the second annual examination
of the Normal and Prepatory Departments of Atlanta University. It is signed by Rufus B. Bullock as governor of Georgia. Among
those named as members of the board are Joseph E. Brown, John Livingston Hopkins, W.A. Hemphill, Dr. S.H. Stout, and J. I.
Whitaker. The present document is a true copy by H.C. Courson, Secretary of the Executive Department.
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ms1409 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Joseph E. Brown papers
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Brown, Joseph E., (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894 |
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Dates: |
1861-1890 |
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The collection consists of a small collection of letters between Brown and B.T. Beauregard, Rufus B. Bullock, Howell Cobb,
Jefferson Davis, Andrew Johnson, Alexander H. Stephens, and Henry H. Tucker mainly regarding Georgia politics during the Civil
War and Reconstruction. Also contains some material relating to Brown's son, Elijah A. Brown including a 1867 diary he kept
while attending the University of Georgia; newspaper clippings pertaining to the death of Joseph E. Brown and his widow; and
some legal documents.
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ms2135 |
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Hargrett Library |
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