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  Ku Klux Klan - LoveToKnow 1911
The object was to protect the whites during the disorders that followed the Civil War, and to oppose the policy of the North towards the South, and the result of the whole movement was a more or less successful revolution against the Reconstruction and an overthrow of the governments based on negro suffrage.
The White Camelia was formed in 1867 in Louisiana and rapidly spread over the states of the late Confederacy.
The whites who were responsible for the conduct of the fls were warned or driven away by social and business ostracism or by violence.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ku_Klux_Klan   (489 words)

  
 Keltic Kirk Knights K K K index
Keltic Kirk Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
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Confederate Klavaliers Klavern of the Bayou Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
www.kelticklankirk.com /keltic_kirk_knights_k_k_k_index.htm   (491 words)

  
 Who Are The White Camelia Knights?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
We are not the Knights of the White Kamellia, Ku Klux Klan.
White shrimpers found themselves in a situation where they could no longer compete in the shrimping industry because the Vietnamese were being financially supported with federal funds and private contributions.
White Camelia believes that the constitution and our bill of rights were written for and by White Christians, Christians that yes, owned slaves.
www.wckkkk.com /who.html   (2866 words)

  
 History & Currents: The Ku Klux Klan
Organizational rules: an absolute secrecy oath in regard to the Order (a member couldn't disclose ANY membership), members were required to attend meetings (held in a brick house on a hilltop near Polaski) adorned in long white robes and extremely tall white pasteboard hats with masks.
The uniform, white sheets and hoods, was utilized to scare superstitious fls and conceal identity from Union soldiers (the post-war South was under visible martial law).
Knights of the White Camelia: The Evolution of the Fourth Reich
members.tripod.com /trusaorg/entrap/klanhistory.html   (767 words)

  
 Ku Klux Klan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
They themselves, dressed in flowing white sheets, their faces covered with white masks, and with skulls at their saddle horns, posed as spirits of the Confederate dead returned from the battlefields.
In the Lower South the Knights of the White Camelia were dominant.
The most notable of these were Mississippi’s White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, led by Robert Shelton.
www.bartleby.com /65/ku/KuKluxKl.html   (1136 words)

  
 ADAH: Alabama Moments (The Ku Klux Klan During Reconstruction---Details)
Black Belt whites, though, preferred to entrust the preservation of white supremacy to Klan-like groups such as the Knights of the White Camelia, the White Brotherhood, the White League, and the Men of Peace.
One historian claimed that every white man, woman, and child in Alabama was in league with the Reconstruction Klan.
Klan members wore long flowing white robes, high conical hoods, and adorned themselves with stars, moons, skulls and crossbones.
www.alabamamoments.state.al.us /sec28det.html   (517 words)

  
 A A World . Reference Room . Articles . Ku Klux Klan | PBS
A similar organization, the Knights of the White Camelia, began in Louisiana in 1867.
In the summer of 1867, the Klan was structured into the “Invisible Empire of the South” at a convention in Nashville, Tenn., attended by delegates from former Confederate states.
A potent force, it was largely responsible for the restoration of white rule in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia.
www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/ku_klux_klan.html   (800 words)

  
 The Militant - 2/9/98 -- How Radical Reconstruction Was Defeated
The aspirations of the liberated and proletarianized Blacks, and their allies among southern white working people, were blocked by the growing power of the U.S. capitalist class.
The deal between the Democratic and Republican parties to withdraw Union troops from the South in 1877 accelerated a reign of terror by the Ku Klux Klan, the Knights of the White Camelia, and other racist gangs beholden to the interests of the exploiters.
It also occurred because the U.S. working class and its organizations were as yet still too weak and politically inexperienced to provide leadership to the kind of social revolution that could have made possible a massive expropriation and redistribution of land to the freed slaves.
www.themilitant.com /1998/625/625_30.html   (1095 words)

  
 DG-KKK Terrorists Active in Texas
Their arms are tattooed with white supremacist emblems and a cigarette lighter with a Klan emblem belonging to King, was found at the scene of the crime.
Hale charged that the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the Knights of the White Camellia KKK are the most active in east Texas.
Charles Lee, head of the Knights of the White Camelia KKK, argues that there is such a thing as "positive violence".
www.dickgregory.com /dick/2_kukluxklan.html   (739 words)

  
 Birth Of The KKK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
White Southerners had lost all control over their own affairs.
These secret societies had such names as the Pale Faces, the Sons of Midnight, and the Knights of the White Camelia.
Wearing white robes and hoods, these "ghosts of dead Rebel soldiers" paid midnight visits to frightened fls and carpetbaggers.
civilwar.bluegrass.net /AftermathAndReconstruction/birthofthekkk.html   (366 words)

  
 The Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan is composed entirely of white, Anglo-saxon, Christian American citizens, both male a
In fact, as depicted in the film “Birth of a Nation”, the Ku Klux Klan was viewed as a group of brave white heroes who gallantly saved whites from aggressive fls in the early twentieth century.
Today the White Camelia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan use quotes from the Bible as well as examples from world history to support their beliefs.
The Camelia Knights state that they look to Christ’s own words to defend their opinions.
home.wlu.edu /~lubint/Touchstone/KKK-Fisher.htm   (2589 words)

  
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Secret societies, such as the Knights of the White Camelia, the White Brotherhood and the Ku Klux Klan spread fear throughout the South.
The Klan, or KKK, was begun in 1866 and said to be an organization of “chivalry, humanity, mercy and patriotism.” But it acted to maintain white supremacy in the South.
They wore white robes that were meant to frighten African Americans into thinking they were ghosts of Confederate soldiers.
www.freewebs.com /nagournj/recon/recon3.doc   (639 words)

  
 Serious About Sirius & The Knights
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Within just a few years the Knights of the White Camelia had taken over almost the whole of the Democratic Party in the cotton south, from eastern Texas to Alabama and parts of Georgia.
They were certainly the precursor to the Ku Klux Klan, which bears a striking resemblance to the Knights of the Golden Circle in some ways, with their emphasis on a faux chivalry and Christian-like restrictions on conduct.
www.rumormillnews.com /cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=4446   (907 words)

  
 Least of My Brothers - A documentary
On September 1st, 1993, Bill Simpson, 36, was murdered 11 hours after he fled the housing complex in the notoriously all white town of Vidor, Texas.
Simpson had received countless death threats from white supremacists in Vidor, and some of his fellow Vidor complex residents say they heard of a specific plot to kill him, which a local Klansman even boasted of participating in.
The two most important were the White Camelia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan from nearby Cleveland, Texas, led by Grand Dragon Charles Lee.
www.kordelski.org /vidor2.html   (692 words)

  
 Welcome to National Civil Rights Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Resentment against the move toward fl equality fueled the creation of white supremacist groups such as the Knights of the White Camelia.
The most enduring of these, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, began in 1866 in Pulaski, TN.
Their nighttime rides became more violent as the "Invisible Empire" vowed to keep America "free for the white man." Sworn to secrecy, the disguised members beat, lynched, and murdered fls.
www.civilrightsmuseum.org /gallery2.asp   (796 words)

  
 White Camelia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
The enclosed information has been produced to clarify the religious, political and racial beliefs of the White Camelia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
The White Camelia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is not one of these so called groups.
I have come to the conclusion that there is indeed a conspiracy to destroy the White Race and to pervert true Christian Doctrine.
www.wckkkk.com /index2.html   (336 words)

  
 Colfax massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, a group of white men (including members of the White League and the Ku Klux Klan) clashed with members of Louisiana's almost all-fl state militia at the local courthouse.
James Hadnot, a Democrat and Knights of the White Camelia leader, ran for parish recorder.
They began mobilizing and spread rumors that local fls had initiated a "reign of terror" and were roaming the countryside with the intent to "exterminate" all white people they found.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colfax_Massacre   (1107 words)

  
 White Only: Jim Crow in America - Separate Is Not Equal
By 1870 similar organizations such as the Knights of the White Camelia and the White Brotherhood had sprung up across the South.
But by then, the Klan had inflamed racial hatred and strengthened the political power of white supremacists in many parts of the country.
Race and white privilege have long been central issues in American politics.
americanhistory.si.edu /brown/history/1-segregated/white-only-2.html   (318 words)

  
 KKK free essays
Some white southerners, however, were still fighting the war and felt they would be until their death.
At the time there were other white supremacy organizations such as the White Brotherhood, the Men of Justice, and the Knights of the White Camelia, but the KKK was the most influential and widely recognized of the groups.
At the beginning, the main goal of the Klan was to keep fls from voting and establish exclusive white government, in the southern states to keep fls at the level of servitude they were at during slavery.
www.needfreeessays.com /viewpaper/37113.html   (262 words)

  
 American Experience | Reconstruction: The Second Civil War | Forty Acres and a Mule | PBS
A fl guy doesn't tip his hat to a white and suddenly people are shooting each other.
In the South, any association with the Republican Party became a mark of social pariah-ness, to such a degree that people were terrified, because you had horrendous acts of violence against these Southern white Republicans: people being shot and lynched, and people having their homes burned...
Dana Nelson: There was a growing awareness among the whites of the possibility that there could be an organized military resistance to their attempt to dominate the workers.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/reconstruction/40acres/sf_violence.html   (829 words)

  
 Fighting Hate and Terror Groups
Adherents believe that whites of European descent can be traced back to the "Lost Tribes of Israel." Many consider Jews to be the Satanic offspring of Eve and the Serpent, while non-whites are "mud peoples" created before Adam and Eve.
Smaller regional groups, such as the Southern Cross Militant Knights and the Northwest Knights, are active on the Internet as well.
Part of the reason for the group's growth has been its appeal to racist skinheads and other young white supremacists, who join in NSM activities ranging from literature distribution to armed paramilitary training.
www.courageofmoses.com /hate-groups.htm   (748 words)

  
 Ku Klux Klan Act (1871)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
These organizations of composed mostly of veterans still aspring to the goals of the Confederacy and their own Southern heritage, brought terror to freed fls who looked to participate in the community as well as to their white allies.
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 was Congress' attempt to put an end to the policies of terrorism, intimidation, and violence that the Klan, the Knights of the White Camelia, and the Jayhawkers had been using.
The law unfortunately failed to eradicate the Klan or abolish the continued use of fear tactics and brutality against fls and supportive whites.
web.grinnell.edu /courses/ams/S00/AMS495-01/Legal/1871.html   (130 words)

  
 White League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During Reconstruction, the White League was a paramilitary white supremacist organization.
Although sometimes likened to the secretive Ku Klux Klan and Knights of the White Camelia, they in fact operated openly, without masks and in large numbers.
The League is sometimes mentioned in connection with the Colfax Massacre of 1873, but the organization as such does not appear under this name until 1874.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_League   (177 words)

  
 Ku Klux Klan
At first the main objective of white supremacy organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, the White Brotherhood, the Men of Justice, the Constitutional Union Guards and the Knights of the White Camelia was to stop fl people from voting.
Over 80 volunteers were beaten by white mobs or racist police officers and three men, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on 21st June, 1964.
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAkkk.htm   (6158 words)

  
 NOSTRADAMUS, SCOTTISH REBELS & THE CORSAIRS' FLEET
So far as is known, the Knights of the White Camelia were organized first in Louisiana, in 1867, or well after the war had ended and Booth had killed Lincoln.
Year by year, as he increased his fees and was then qualified to argue cases before the House of Lords, his wealth grew and so did the Knights of the White Camelia.
We must remember two important facts: all or most of the fleet of the Knights Templar escaped from the October 13th massacre which doomed their order in France, and a substantial portion of those surviving knights entered Scotland, where they found refuge with Robert a' Bruce.
www.rumormillnews.com /cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=19087   (1889 words)

  
 Ho for Kansas!
The dream of owning a piece of land and attaining economic freedom was as much beyond their reach as when they were in bondage.
Now, though, other groups with new names such as the Regulators, the Knights of the White Camelia, and the Ku Klux Klan appeared, and with them, incidents of violence against African Americans increased.
To many former slaves, Kansas was the "promised land." The famous abolitionist John Brown had once lived there and taken part in the struggle to free the state from slavery.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/history_for_children/28028/1   (537 words)

  
 tutorials
Rudyard Kipling's poem, "The White Man's Burden" appeared in the midst of the debate about imperialism within the United States.
Although Kipling was British and his poem offered a mixed message about imperialism, imperialists in the United States quickly seized upon the phrase "white man's burden" as a euphemism for imperialism that justified the policy as a noble enterprise.
Autobiography of a "girl, age 21, of native white parentage &endash; a senior in a university"
teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au /history/2035/tutorials.htm   (1482 words)

  
 Camelia - Moviefone
White Camelia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Camelia started out as a tool to help students in Brown University's CS17 have...
Camelia tries to give comprehensive tips for all common errors in OCaml.
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