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    The Ku Klux Klan
    The Ku Klux Klan
    The Ku Klux Klan
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    The Ku Klux Klan

    By Annie Cooper Burton

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Ku Klux Klan - Annie Cooper Burton

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      Title: The Ku Klux Klan

      Author: Annie Cooper Burton

      Release Date: October 9, 2012 [EBook #41007]

      Language: English

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      The Ku Klux Klan

      By

      Annie Cooper Burton

      President, Wade Hampton Chapter, No. 763,

      United Daughters of the Confederacy,

      Los Angeles, California

      Cover Design by Howard Willard

      Typography by Taylor's Printery

      WARREN T. POTTER

      PUBLISHER AND BOOKMAKER

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      LOS ANGELES, CAL.

      Copyright, 1916, by

      WARREN T. POTTER

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      To Father

      The Ku Klux Klan

      The great Ku Klux Klan sprang up like a mushroom, a Southern organization formed in a time when no other power in the world could have saved the suffering South from the utter disorder which prevailed during the awful period following the War between the States.

      The stigma attached to the name Ku Klux Klan by the uninformed masses has, at this late day, been practically removed, thanks to that Southern author, Thomas J. Dixon, who through The Clansman swayed public opinion the right way; and thanks again to that master director, David W. Griffith, another Southerner, who filmed this wonderful story and set the people to exclaiming, Why, the Ku Klux Klan was a grand and noble order! It ranks with the best.

      Every clubhouse of the United Daughters of the Confederacy should have a memorial tablet dedicated to the Ku Klux Klan; that would be a monument not to one man, but to five hundred and fifty thousand men, to whom all Southerners owe a debt of gratitude; for how our beloved Southland could have survived that reign of terror is a big question.

      The very name Ku Klux shows that the order was formed among men of letters. It is a Greek word meaning circle. Klan suggested itself; the name complete in turn suggested mystery. Originally the order was purely a social organization, formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, May, 1866, and gave diversion to the restless young men after the reaction of war. They found vast amusement in belonging to a club which excited and baffled curiosity; great sport, too, was found in initiating

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