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- What do you do when the Klan is after YOU?
October 1, 1928 to November 10, 1928
Jefferson, Alabama
Ku Klux Klan, PoliticsMajor Harwell Goodwin Davis is sitting at his desk and he hears the distinctive ring of the telephone. He picks up the receiver only to find out that the head of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama is the man at the other end. In the 1920s, anybody would listen to what this man had to say, even a man running for Congress. Davis was fast-rising politician that just finished a well-known court case as the Attorney...
- Senate Asks To Investigate Southern Crimes by Band of Disguised People January 10, 1871 BEAUFORT, North Carolina Senate, Ku Klux Klan
On January 10, 1871, the Senate of the United States passed a decree that appointed five investigators to clarify the intents behind politically-driven outrages committed in the South. The investigators received a message on January 13, from President Ulysses S. Grant that contained reports of military officers, communications from Governors of States; and letters and petitions from private citizens....