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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Ku Klux Klan Records #04921, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from William Geer of Chapel Hill, N.C., March 1998 (Acc. 98061) and Terry Alford of Annandale, Va., May 1998 (Acc. 98125).

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• Afro-Americans--Caricatures and cartoons.
• Afro-Americans--Race relations--20th century.
• Alabama--Race relations--20th century.
• Confederate Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Greensboro, N.C.).
• Georgia--Race relations--20th century.
• Knights of the Green Forest (Tupelo, Miss.).
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Alabama.
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Georgia.
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--History.
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Mississippi.
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--North Carolina.
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Rituals.
• Mississippi--Race relations--20th century.
• National States Rights Party (U.S.).
• North Carolina--Race relations--20th century.
• Racism--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Southern States--Race relations--20th century.
• Thunderbolt (Birmingham, Ala.).
• United Klans of America.
• White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Miss.).
• White supremacy movements--United States--History--20th century.

The Ku Klux Klan of the twentieth century took its name from the terrorist organization that opposed black voting in the South during Reconstruction. A social and political force in the early part of the century, by the 1950s it had become a more divided group. In the 1960s, Tuscaloosa rubber worker Robert M. Sheldon, Jr., established leadership over the southern Klans as head of the United Klans of America.

Primarily published and ephemeral items collected from Ku Klux Klan organizations active in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and North Carolina, 1960s-1970s. Included are flyers, application forms, meeting guidelines, periodicals, cartoons, and other items from the Confederate Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Greensboro, N.C.), the Knights of the Green Forest (Tupelo, Miss.), the United Klans of America (Tuscaloosa, Ala.), the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Miss.), and the National States Rights Party (Savannah, Ga.). Among the periodicals is one issue of the "Thunderbolt" of Birmingham, Ala.