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Posted 2005-02-26, 09:07 AM
in reply to zonalon's post starting "The following are all from the years..."
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zonalon said:
The following are all from the years 1920 - 21:
On Sept. 17, in Richmond, Va., a police officer was killed by a criminal. The Richmond Klan sent $100 to the widow.
On Aug. 27, in Charleston, W.Va., Klansmen contributed $275 toward the support of the Old Ladies Home in Kanawha County.
In March the Charlottesville, Va., Klan gave $1,000 to the University of Virginia Centennial Endowment Fund.
November 24, the Henderson, Tx. Klan gave $50 to two Negroes in needy circumstances. (http://www.kkklan.com/various2.gif)
October 1, the Atlanta Klan contributed $100 to help pay expenses of Confederate veterans from Atlanta to Houston, Tx., at the annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans.
Nov. 23, the Greenville, Tx., Klan contributed $1,000 toward rebuilding Wesley College, which had been destroyed by fire.
On Christmas Day, 1921, the Atlanta, Ga., Klan contributed $125 to the Christmas fund for former slaves.
Nov. 25, the Memphis, Tn., Klan gave $100 to the Red Cross.
Nov. 7, the Goliad, Tx., Klan contributed $50 to a town citizen whose home and possessions had been destroyed by fire.
June 22, the San Antonio, Tx., Klan gave $100 to the local Orphan's Home.
July 6, the Wharton, Tx., Klan contributed $50 to a destitute widow.
July 9, the Cureo, Tx., Klan gave $60 to help a man afflicted with tuberculosis.
Nov. 21, the Austin, Tx., Klan sent $100 to the Salvation Army.
July 20, the Dallas, Tx., Klan sent $100 to the Orphans' Home.
The Atlanta Klan gave $1,000 to the Agnes Scott Girls' School in that city.
Nov. 29, the Washington, D.C., Klan gave $100 to the Salvation Army.
During this same time period the Atlanta Klan loaned $15,000, interest free, to small tradesmen who needed capital for their businesses. The Klan loaned many more thousands of dollars, free of interest, to small tradesmen across the country.
The Execution of Bill German in Overton County.
The Union and American of Saturday says: "By a private letter from a trustworthy gentleman residing at Cookville in Putnam County, we give some further information in regard to the recent execution near Livingston, in Overton County, by a body of supposed Ku-Klux, of the young man Wm. German, an account of which we published Thursday morning. "He says that a few days before the execution, German shot and badly wounded, and supposed he had killed, a Negro man living in his neighborhood. The shooting took place in a public road, and the Negro managed to crawl to the house of his employer, where he told who had shot him. The Negro had the character of being a quiet, peaceable man, and as there had been no previous trouble between him and German, it was supposed the crime was perpetrated in pure wantonness.
It is thought that the persons by whom German was killed were members of a secret organization, to which he belonged - but whether Ku-Klux or not, nobody in the neighborhood appears to know. The body of men concerned in the execution numbered about 200, and none of them were identified by citizens who witnessed their appearance and departure. Accounts reported Bill German was found hanged in a nearby barn; a sign posted there declared: Hung for shooting a Negro, Bill Cullum, and violating the laws of Ku Klux."
After the original KKK disbanded there was no Ku Klux Klan until it was revived in 1915. Therefore, we feel that the 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica gives an unbiased and accurate brief description of the original Ku Klux Klan. It will be interesting to the reader to compare today's Encyclopaedia Britannica to this edition.
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Very nice. More copy and paste.
http://www.cosforums.com/archive/index.php/t-19529.html
Of course, the fact that you got this from a klan website discredits what you have to say anyway. And really, was the klan so petty that it recorded when it gave $50, and considered it a good thing. Perhaps you should also mention, as many "good things" the klan did from 1920-1921, it also did that many lynchings in a day.
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