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Ku Klux Klan knife
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Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) |
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Dates: |
20th century |
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This collection consists of one small pocket knife inscribed KKK.
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ms3996 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Klu Klux Klan photograph
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Unknown |
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unknown |
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This collection includes a photograph of a large group of clad members of the Ku Klux Klan.
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ms4422 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Humphry Curtis deposition regarding KKK murders
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Curtis, Humphry |
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Dates: |
1868 November 5 |
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Humphry Curtis' deposition regarding Ku Klux Klan intimidation related to the Election of 1868. The document describes a racially
motivated murder to which Humphry Curtis was witness in which a group of KKK members dragged his father William Curtis out
of his home and shot him several times.
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ms3604 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Ku Klux Klan Charter for Bowden, Georgia
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Simmons, W. J. (William Joseph), 1880-1945 |
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1918 December 4 |
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A charter issued by Imperial Wizard William Joseph Simmons (1880-1945) on December 4, 1918, for an order of the Klan to be
located in Bowden, Georgia. The charter is in response to a petition by citizens listed on the charter for the Chas. B. McDaniel
Klan No. 11.
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ms3690 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Sosbee family papers
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Sosbee, James Earl, 1881-1941 |
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Dates: |
1918-1935 |
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This collection contains the personal papers of James Earl Sosbee including correspondence, membership cards, and membership
dues receipts pertaining to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Also included in this
collection are a letter from Representative Paul Brown regarding a CCC camp transfer request for Sosbee's son, postcards pledging
war savings stamps, local board registration from the War Department, receipts from J. W. Daniel Ginning and the C. A. Trussel
Motor Company and a campaign button for Dr. L. C. Allen.
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Identifier: |
ms4279 |
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Hargrett Library |
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David Jackson Bailey papers
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Bailey, David Jackson, 1812-1897 |
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Dates: |
1860-1925 |
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The collection consists of papers concerning the formation of the 30th Georgia Infantry, of which David Jackson Bailey was
Colonel, from 1860-1865. Some correspondence regards supply and medical matters; and a letter to Bailey from his father regards
the health of family members. A chunk of printed material at the end of the collection regards William Joseph Simmons and
the Ku Klux Klan.
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Identifier: |
ms1661 |
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Hargrett Library |
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The revival of the Ku Klux Klan typescript
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McCallister, Frank, 1908-1970 |
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Dates: |
1940 June |
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The collection consists of one typescript: The revival of the Ku Klux Klan, by Frank McCallister, dated June 1940, 15 pages,
outlining the development and revival of the Ku Klux Klan. Includes newspaper clippings and editorial cartoons about the Klan
from 1937-1940. The text was for an anti-Klan pamphlet issued by the Workers Defense League to "aid the campaing to make secure
our Bill of Rights; help extend our democracy ot embrace Southern mill workers adn Negroes."
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ms1694 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Marion Colley Boyd papers
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Boyd, Marion Colley |
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Dates: |
1915-1948 |
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The collection consists of papers of Marion Colley Boyd from 1915-1948. Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and
printed material. The collection centers upon her early (1915-1917) activities with the woman's suffrage movement in Georgia
and New York, her work with the League of Women Voters of Georgia, and the Democratic Party. Also includes material relating
to her service as a delegate to the 1924 Democratic National convention in New York and her role in the controversy over the
adoption of the "Klan plank" by the convention.
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Identifier: |
ms1149 |
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Hargrett Library |
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John Quincy Jett papers
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Jett, John Quincy |
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Dates: |
1833-1925 |
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The collection mainly consists of papers of John Quincy Jett relating to his involvement with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) from
1920-1925. Contains correspondence, printed material, clippings, and photographs of KKK activities including a government
investigation of the KKK, the establishment of a press clipping bureau within the KKK to monitor and counter act publicity,
and information on the power struggle between William J. Simmons and Hiram Evans. Correspondents include Elizabeth Tyler,
Simmons, and Edward Young Clarke. The collection also contains land deeds from the 1800's.
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ms1659 |
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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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Identifier: |
ms582 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Ku Klux Klan ephemera collection
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Creator: |
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) |
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Dates: |
1920-1948 |
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The collection consists a Klode Kard (songs), petition for citizenship in the Invisible Empire, oath of allegiance, by-laws
form for local chapters, and The Klansman (August 1, 1948). Pamplets include "American's take Heed!" (1920), "The Ku Klux
Ball : a satire on the younger set," "KKKK : why, what, how, who, and you" and a picture postcard with an illustration of
banner used by the Ku Klux Klan. A program for "Polly with a Past : a comedy in three acts" (1923) by the Marionettes of Georgia
Tech includes an advertisement for the Ku Klux Klan.
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ms2955 |
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Hargrett Library |
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