History of the Ku Klux Klan
Pulaski is a small town in southern Tennessee
near the Alabama border
and. There's a house with a sign that justifies Pulaski's glorious history!
This sign shows the names of the six founders of our holy order, the Ku Klux
Klan, founded on Christmas eve
in 1865.
The founders were: Calvin E. Jones, John B. Kennedy, Frank O. McCord, John C.
Lester, Richard R. Reed,
James R. Crowe
The sign was there since it was revealed by Capt. Kennedy's widow, after Capt.
Kennedy died as the last of
the six founders.
Ku Klux comes from the greek word "kuklos" for circle. They changed it into Ku
Klux. All six were of Scottish
descent so they added "clan" - the name of our brotherhood until today and
forever:
KU KLUX KLAN
The Confederacy just lost the war and Carpetbaggers and Scallywags came into the
South, to raid it. They
raped our women, and helped blacks into high ranks. There was violence, pillages
and rapes.
The KU KLUX KLAN was born and the White Riders of the Night terminated the
unfairness for a while.
The first Grand Wizard was
Nathan Bedford Forrest, a high rank Confederate-general (the wizard in the
saddle). They even asked Robert E. Lee for this office, but he was too old and
ill, but agreed with the
election of Forrest for the Grand Wizard. In every town there was a Klan, but
not each Klan was original, so
many murdered and lynched. After two years Forrest declared the Klan as
disbanded, because of this
violence. Rumors say that Forrest had an agreement with President Grant. But
maybe it was his way to make
the Invisible Empire even more invisible. The Klan represented the resistance of
the whites, so the dissolution
of the Klan would have been impossible.
That was the first Era of the Ku Klux Klan and the only era The Klan was just in
America.
At Thanksgiving 1915 Col. William Joseph Simmons climbed together with 16
Klansmen onto Stone
Mountain, GA to reanimate the Klan again with a cross lighting. The name of our
order is since that glorious
day: "Knights of the Ku Klux Klan". That was the beginning of the second era.
The Klan was growing and growing. Simmons has been Imperial Wizard from 1915 -
1922.
Then Hiram W. Evans was elected to the Imperial Wizard, while Simmons became
Emperor.
The KKK had members in number
of up to 6 million people. The Klan also brought some presidents just as:
Calvin Coolidge, Woodrow Wilson), they had people in the Senate, Governors, the
well known artist Gutzon
Borglum (Swedish descent), author Thomas Dixon (The Clansmen, a modern romance),
the moviemaker
David Dwark Griffith (Birth of a nation) were Klansmen.
Mr. Evans organized the Klan all over the world and so crosses over lit in
Germany, Czech Republic,
KKKanada, New Zealand, Shanghai, United Kingdom, Cuba and even Mexico.
But the Klan needed just 1 man to bring it down: Grand Dragon Robert E.
Stevenson was convicted for
raping a woman to death. After that he published 2 small black boxes, with all
the members, and discovered
the identity of many Klansmen who were in high official ranks in society and
business.
The Klan shrunk into less than 1 million members, and was dis-banned again during
WW II.
In the 60's there was a real comeback of the Ku Klux Klan, when the south was
forced to open its schools
and public places to blacks. Nobody in the south wanted that, so a new resistance
was born and the Ku Klux
Klan grew again. But there was a war especially down in Mississippi and Alabama.
Bombings, fights and violence. And the Klan unfortunately lost that bloody
battle.
Sam Bowers
There were other successful
Imperial Wizards like Sam Bowers, Robert Shelton, Sam Roper, James Venable,
David Duke.
We don't believe in violence today. The Klans of the 60's almost had no chance
to act in another way. It was
war. But today we don't fight our battle with violence. But of course we believe
in SELF DEFENSE!
Today there are many Klans, some of them say that their Klan is the ONLY real
Klan, others accepts each
other. We stand for UNITY - for the WHITE RACE and our CHRISTIAN FAITH.