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Title: The clansman : an American drama : from his two famous novels The leopard's spots and The clansman : presented by the Southern Amusement Co.
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946
Subjects: Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946 Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946 Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Publisher: New York : American News Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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fe, and gripwith power of fate the souls of generations unborn. If anyman think this an academic question of the past which mustbe determined by experts in dates and documents, let him askthe police of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louisinto whose crowded streets and tenements the Black Man ispushing his way. The Ku Klux Klan was a great Law and Order League ofmounted night cavalrymen called into action by the intolerableconditions of a reign of terror under Negro rule in the South.It was the answer to their foes of an indomitable race of men,conquered, betrayed, disarmed and driven to desperation. Itwas the old answer of organized manhood to organized crimemasquerading under the forms of government. Its rise was due to the mind of no leader. It was an acci-dent. It was a case of spontaneous combustion. A group of boys at Pulaski, Tennessee, organized it firstas a local fraternity. They found a name in the Greek workKuklos, a band, or circle, and to this they added Clan, and
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«=5 as < m w2: riiE sTOK) ()!■ Tin-: ku kllx kl.in then split the germ word iiitd iwn weird nioiiosyliahles, spellingthe Clan with a K, to heighten the appeal tn the super-stitious, and lo, the awe-inspiring Ku Khi\ Klaii! The terror of these silent ghosts, riding in llu night, reducedthe Negro race to an immediate and profound peace. The ideaspread to an adjoining county and rapidly over the state ofTennessee which was the tirsl to pass henealli the xoke ofNegro supremacy. In 1867 a secret convention of peace-loving, law-ahiding.God-fearing, jiatriotic Southerners met in Nashville and or-ganized this society into The Invisihle Km))ire, adopted aritual, and adjourned. They met in the ruins of an oldhomestead within the picket lines of 35,000 troops sent thereto enforce the rule of the black slave over his former master. As the young German patriots of 1812 organized their strug-gle for liberty under the noses of the garrisons of Napoleon,so these daring men, girt by ba\onets, di

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