Word: klux
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...lower South from 1820, how its political ideals and aspirations were formed, culminating in the final act of 1860, the secession of Virginia. The other papers touch in an interesting way on "The Orator of Secession," Benjamin Cudworth Yancey, "The Resources of the Confederacy" and "The Ku Klux Movement." The last two essays, "A New Hero of an Old Type" and "Shifting the White Man's Burden," treat more recent subjects; the former showing how the new South has contributed to our list of heroes in the war with Spain, the latter touching on the problem of the gradual disfranchisement...
Atlantic: "The Reconstruction Period: the Ku Klux Movement," by W. G. Brown '91; "Our Literature Once More: American Prose Style," by J. D. Logan '94; "The Professor's Chance," by Robert Herrick '90; "Productive Scholarship in America," by Professor Hugo Munsterberg...
Another article of interest in the May Atlantic is "The Reconstruction Period: the Ku Klux movement," by William Garrott Brown 91. The history of the whole period of the Reconstruction of the Southern States after the Civil War is, especially in the North, comparatively little known. The "Ku Klux Klan," a secret fraternity organized to oppose the carpet bag politicians and to prevent the dominance of the negroes, was a society unique and curious in its aims and work, and an account of it, as well as of the state of southern politics from which it arose, is full...