The Invisible Empire — Area Dispatch

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below is the appropriately ridiculous statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest.

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“While in Washington he will have a lot of Invisible Empire secret service men near to see that no harm comes to him.”

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MI-page-3-OCt.-1921-Investigate-the-Klan — Area Dispatch — A page from an issue of the Wadesboro NC newspaper the Messenger and Intelligencer is an intimidating account of Klan practices Membership wasnt considered what it is today though It was actually a respected alliance that greatly benefited its members <br><br><strong><mark style=background colorac0000colorbcbcbc class=has inline color>Some things havent changed <mark><strong>

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The images below are the cover and a page from within the program to the 1921 annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans. In the early 1900s when membership was at its peak, the UCV boasted over 160,000 members.

The United Confederate Veterans was formed in New Orleans in 1889, with its first annual reunion held in Chattanooga the year following its formation in 1890. The formation of ‘Rebel’ organizations was illegal until 1878.

The video below is the first part of a two-part series on the Ku Klux Klan, with Part 2 just below this one. This documentary series is an interesting and well-presented source on the history, practices, and realities of the Klan in America since its formation. Come back once you finish Part 1, it’s a good show, and you are sure to learn something.

Family Tree Book — Area Dispatch — Published in 1922 by William Thomas Smith of Evansville Indiana <br>William Alexander Smith is named as coauthor in the Preface

Within This Book:

“When the Ku Klux Klan re-emerged in the 1920s
more notorious and stronger than it had been after the Civil War,
Indiana was its epicenter.“

The First ‘Northern’ Chapter:

“Evansville residents — and everyone else —
the state’s Ku Klux Klan charter started in our great city… “

The Evansville, Indiana KKK charter was signed on March 14, 1922.

As you can see on our post ‘Dirty Fortune,’ William Alexander Smith was not “square dealing” as this excerpt from the Family Tree Book claims. In fact, William Alexander Smith appears to have been a pathological liar. The philanthropic bequests in his famous will was not because of his claimed generous nature. His will was written posthumously as a cover story for several pieces of his life.

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Jamaica New York Klavern Detail — Area Dispatch

The spread of Ku Klux Klan ‘Klaverns’
throughout America from 1918-1923:

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First ‘Northern’ chapter organized in Evansville, Indiana in March, 1922.

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Martin House — Area Dispatch — The Thomas Martin House – Pulaski, TN

This ‘commemorative’ half dollar from 1925 is stated as a memorial to the “valor of the soldier of the South.” A United States of America commemorative coin ‘memorializing’ the men who fought to cause the collapse of our constitutional republic. Stone Mountain was not actually opened as an attraction until 1965, and its opening coincided with the 100-year anniversary of President Lincoln’s assassination. Supposedly in 1915, a group of men held a ceremony at Stone Mountain to symbolize the start of the second rise and resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan. Racism was apparently a good business, and the Invisible Empire claimed millions of nationwide members by the year this coin was minted.