Title

The Ku Klux Klan, 1940. Creator: Melinda O. Smith.

Caption

The Ku Klux Klan, 1940. 'What is meant by the Ku Klux Klan? The Ku Klux Klan is a secret society in the southern United States after the Civil War aiming to prevent Negros ascendency. A member of this society is called a Ku Klux Klant. The attack on the policies of the carpet-bag government had a desired effect among the poor and ignorant whites. Reared under the degrading influences of slavery, they could not tolerate the blacks as citizens. The Negroes thereafter wer harassed and harried by distubing elements of anarchy, out of which soon emerged an oath-bound order called the Ku Klux Klan established to terrorize the Negroes with lawlessness and violence...'. Note in margin: 'The Negro in Our History page 413, by [Carter G.] Woodson'.

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Reference

HRM23A06_224

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Keywords

library politics country letter Southern poor poverty political text location century handwriting document concept correspondence African American African-American 1940s afro-american lettering ignorance public library MONOCHROME ideology racism Forties United States of America persecution 20th century KKK Ku Klux Klan New York Public Library NYPL heritage American America USA decade united states right wing white supremacy white supremacist cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art Schomburg Center for Research Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture essays Melinda O. Smith Smith Melinda O.