September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
Broadside "The Clansman." 1pp. quarto, Historical Note Truth Stranger than Fiction - Startling Conditions Out of Which Grew the Ku Klux Klan, and reads in part: "...On November 30, 1867, the negroes of South Carolina were allowed to vote on the same day to enfranchise themselves and disfranchise their former masters of the race whose genius had created the American Republic. Social equality was boldly proclaimed. The Commander of the Carolinas issued from Charleston a proclamation repealing the laws of marriage and promised bayonets to protect blacks in inter-marrying with the whites. The negroes obtained control of the entire machinery of government...The Governor, an ex-convict, was a white scalawag, lower than his black associates. Millions in taxes were voted and stolen. In collecting these taxes as many as 2,900 homes were executed and sold by the sheriff in a single county. A negro militia of 80,000 men paraded over the state and no white man was allowed to bear arms...Out of these conditions grew the KU KLUX KLAN..." Fine condition.
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