A statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest
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.
of Evansville, Indiana, in 1922.
The video below is the first of a two-part series on the Ku Klux Klan, with Part 2 just below it. This documentary series is an informative and well-presented source on the history, practices, and realities of the Klan in America since its formation.
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.
The spread of Ku Klux Klan ‘Klaverns’
throughout America from 1918-1923:
In 1921, William Alexander Smith became the head of the North Carolina United Confederate Veterans, and Julian Shakespeare Carr left his position to Smith as the head of the NC UCV to take over the entire United Confederate Veterans organization. This apparently occurred at the Annual Reunion in Chattanooga.
Visit this link for a peculiar finding we’ve discovered about Julian Carr,
the namesake of Carrboro, NC and the Businessman behind Bull Durham Tobacco.
the First ‘Northern’ chapter organized in Evansville, Indiana in March, 1922.
The same year that William Thomas Smith, of Evansville, Indiana, published the
Family Tree Book with William Alexander Smith as the co-author.
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.
“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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the latter is something that hasn’t changed…
