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قراءة كتاب Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment
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Ku Klux Klan
ITS ORIGIN, GROWTH AND DISBANDMENT
BY
J.C. LESTER AND D.L. WILSON
WITH
APPENDICES CONTAINING THE PRESCRIPTS
OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, SPECIMEN
ORDERS AND WARNINGS
WITH
INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
WALTER L. FLEMING, PH. D.
Professor of History in West Virginia University; Author
of "Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama."
NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Assistance was given to me while searching for information in regard to Ku Klux Klan, by many former members of the order, and by their friends and relatives. Of especial value were the details given to me by Major James R. Crowe, of Sheffield, Alabama; the late Ryland Randolph, Esq., and his son, Ryland Randolph, Jr., of Birmingham, Alabama; Judge Z.T. Ewing, of Pulaski, Tennessee; Miss Cora R. Jones, of Birmingham, Alabama, niece of one of the founders of the Klan; Mr. Lacy H. Wilson, of Bristol, Tennessee, the son of one of the authors of the History printed within, Major S.A. Cunningham and Mr. A.V. Goodpasture, of Nashville, and Dr. John A. Wyeth, of New York City.
There is still much that is obscure about Ku Klux Klan and I shall be glad to obtain additional information in regard to the order, and also to receive notice of mistakes and errors in this account.
W.L.F.
CONTENTS
| INTRODUCTION. | |
| BY WALTER L. FLEMING. | |
| PAGE | |
| 13 | |
| KU KLUX KLAN. | |
| BY J.C. LESTER AND D.L. WILSON. | |
| Chapter I. The Origin | 47 |
| Chapter II. The Spread of the Klan | 68 |
| Chapter III. The Transformation | 83 |
| Chapter IV. The Decline | 100 |
| Chapter V. Disbandment | 125 |
APPENDICES. |
|
| Appendix I. Prescript of Ku Klux Klan | 133 |
| Appendix II. Revised and Amended Prescript of Ku Klux Klan | 151 |
| Appendix III. Constitution of a Local Order | 177 |
| Appendix IV. Ku Klux Orders, Warnings, and Oaths | 187 |
| Index | 199 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| 1. Badge worn by high officials of the Klan. See outside cover. | |
| 2. Some Klansmen | 19 |
| 3. General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Grand Wizard | 28 |
| 4. General John B. Gordon | 33 |
| 5. Room in which the Klan was organized | 53 |
| 6. Costumes worn in Mississippi and West Alabama | 58 |
| 7. Costumes worn in Tennessee and North Alabama | 97 |
| 8. Carpetbaggers Listening to a Ku Klux Report, (Cartoon) | 113 |
| 9. The Fate of the Carpetbagger and the Scalawag, (Cartoon) | 192 |
| 10. A Specimen Warning sent by the Klan | 196 |
"When laws become lawless contrivances to defeat the ends of justice, it is not surprising that the people resort to lawless expedients for securing their rights."—S.S. Cox, in "Three Decades," p. 558.