One of the last things today's biased media wants anyone to know is that there were Negro members of the Ku Klux Klan. No one has ever written a book about them to my knowledge though such a book would be of great historical interest. In fact, very little documentation has survived. What little does survive speaks volumes and proves that Americans do not know their own history. Here I will simply give my sources of information and quote from them. If anyone has further documentation about the Black membership of the KKK I'd be grateful to be referred to it. Should I come across more documentation I will list it here.
My first source of Negro Klan membership is the book, "The Ku Klux Spirit", by J.A. Rogers, noted Negro historian of the 1920's. The Ku Klux Spirit was first published in 1923, by Messenger Publishing Co. It was republished in 1980, by Black Classic Press. On page 34 of his book we find the amazing passage: "A fact not generally known is that there were thousands of Negro Klansmen. These were used as spies on other Negroes and on Northern Whites."
Very interesting. In the 1920's, there were plenty of original Klansmen still living as well as many other people of both races who lived during the Reconstruction Era. J.A. Rogers would have been able to interview many. Why would a Black historian make such a thing up? And if he did make it up there would have been plenty of people who would have objected. His book would not have survived to this day. Yet, it did.
My second source is a book written by a Carpetbagger, Albion Winegar Tourgee (1838-1905). In 1880 he published his book, "A Fool's Errand", (New York: Fords, Howard and Hubert). It was republished in 1989 by Louisiana State University Press as, "The Invisible Empire". On page 79 of his book we find the passage: "There were no Colored men in the band (of Klansmen) that night. Their hands were not covered. I could see their boots and pants, and I could judge from their hands and feet. Most of them were genteel people, besides being white people. I could also have told by their language if there had been any Colored people among them. Their language was that of white men, and cultivated men."
OK, why claim that no Colored men were riding with the Klan that night unless the witness had seen Colored men with the Klan on another occasion? The men were in their robes since the witness had to look at their uncovered hands to see that no Colored men were among them. If he's not telling the truth, why would a Carpetbagger, of all people, ever make such a thing up?
My third source is, "Ku Klux Klan, It's Origins, Growth, and Disbandment", by J.C. Lester (one of the six original founders of the first Ku Klux Klan) and D.L. Wilson (another early Klansman). The book was first published in 1884. (I have an original copy). Reprints of this book are available from us for $7.00. The book was re-printed in 1905. In that edition, Walter L. Fleming, Ph.D., added an introduction. Again in 1905, there were still plenty of original Klansmen and others who had lived during the Reconstruction Era. In the introduction we find Fleming's statement: "Many of the genuine Unionists later joined in the movement (the KKK), and there were some few Negro members, I have been told."
Now here we are told that there were "some few Negro members". Above we were told that there "were thousands of Negro Klansmen." But that is relative. When one considers that the original KKK had over 400,000 members "some few Negro members" could have totaled several thousand!
My fourth source is an more modern book, "Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography", by Jack Hurst. On page 305 we find this interesting quote: "...(the Klan was) reorganized to oppose radical proponents (the Radical Republicans) of what it perceived to be Black domination, NOT to scourge Blacks themselves. Although it has been written that Ku Klux Klan ranks were open only to the more than 100,000 honorably discharged ex-Confederate veterans, the hierarchy in some areas and some instances seems to have accepted and even recruited Blacks, provided they went along with Conservative-Democratic political philosophy. In Memphis of late 1868, sixty-five Blacks organized a "Colored Democratic Club" under the watchful eye of Klansman-editor Gallaway - - who according to an account in the Appeal, "made a motion on behalf of the White men present, that they give employment and protection to Colored democrats."
So, the Klan not only accepted and recruited Blacks in some areas, but a Klan leader made a motion that White men give employment and protection to Colored democrats. That in itself speaks volumes. Yes, volumes of ignored facts of Klan, Negro, and American history.My fifth source is the book: "Jesse James and the Lost Cause" by Jesse Lee James, Pageant Press, N.Y., 1961.
My sixth source is the book: "Jesse James was one of His Names" by Del Schrader with Jesse James III, Arcadia, CA, Santa Anna Press, 1975.
That is all I have for documentation that there were Negro members of the original Ku Klux Klan. But, that in itself, is enough to prove their existence! The only thing to do now is to discover more documentation of what may very well be the least known chapter in Black American history. I said before that Americans do not know their own history. In time I will add this to my web page, but how many of you know that there were millions of White slaves (not bonded servants, but true slaves for life) in this country? That there were free Negroes who owned slaves? That there were free Negroes who fought gallantly for the Confederate States? That the Confederate Army did not discriminate against, or pay unequally its Negro soldiers? This and more, in time will be added. But for now, back to the Klan.
When the Klan was revived in 1915 it was originally just for Protestant White men. In time the Klan added the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, teenager and children's groups, groups for the foreign born and Colored men.
Concerning the Colored Klansmen of the 20th century my first source is, "Women of the Klan, Racism and Gender in the 1920's", by Kathleen M. Blee. (1991, University of California Press). On page 169, we find the passage, " Even more strangely, the Klan tried to organize an order of Black Protestants, a Klan "Colored division" in Indiana and other states. Despite promises that the new order would have "all the rights of membership" of the White Klan, much preparation went into ensuring that the values of white supremacy would be preserved as the Klan expanded its racial base. The group was to wear red robes, white capes, and blue masks and was prohibited from being seen in public with White Klansmen or handling any membership funds."
Well, if any of you ever find such a red, white, and blue robe in an antique shop or old trunk somewhere it would be as significant an historical find as discovering an original Klan robe. Likewise with any photos of the Colored Klansmen, newspapers articles, or anything else pertaining to them. Let me know if you do. (I think I'll make a couple reproductions of their robes for display.) It is presently unknown just how far the Colored Man's Klan went or how long they lasted. When the men's Klan had to disband in 1944, the separate Women of the Ku Klux Klan organization did not. They changed their name to the Women's Christian Patriotic Association and continued up to the 1960's. Could this order of Black Protestants have changed its name and still be with us to this day with its origins unknown to historians as well as its own present members?
Now to further add to this my next source of information is from the KKK, itself. In their book, "K.K.K. Friend or Foe: Which?", by attorney Blaine Mast and published in 1924 a chapter is dedicated to discussing the KKK and its relationship to the Black population. In this chapter we see the passage:
"The KKK claims that there is no good reason why the Colored people may not form a Ku Klux Klan of their own, and, as far as the writer knows, such an institution may exist in America. Indeed, we were credibly informed that some months ago a Klan gathering took place in an adjoining state, which was attended by some 20 colored men, for a general invitation had been extended. Those Negroes were so favorably impressed with what a distinguished speaker said, and with the general character and demeanor of the meeting, that they approached the speaker and others in authority and inquired if it were not possible for the Colored people to form a Klan of their own race. If they could get permission to organize they were anxious to do so and hoped for assistance from the officers of the KKK. So, in this particular instance, at least, some Colored men had no fear in associating with Klansmen."
The chapter then went on to outline the ground work for such a Black Klan. It is of interest that in the same book, another chapter is dedicated to discussing the possible formation of a Jewish branch of the Ku Klux Klan. A reprint of this book is available from us for $7.00.
We have recently made a new historical find concerning Negroes in the KKK that you will find surprising. It appears that in some cases Whites and Blacks belonged to the same local chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. Our source of information is from the book: Hard Times by Studs Terkel (1970, New York). The book is about the conditions in this country during the Great Depression. On page 239 we read:
"The Ku Klux was formed on behalf of people that wanted a decent living, both black and white. Half the coal camp was colored. It wasn't anti-colored. The black people had the same responsibilities as the white. Their lawn was just as green as the white man's. They got the same rate of pay. There was two colored who belonged to it. I remember those two coming around my father and asking questions about it. They joined. The pastor of our community church was a colored man. He was Ku Klux. It was the only protection the working man had. ....... One time a Negro slapped a white boy. They didn't give him any warning. They whipped him and ran him out of town. If a white man slapped a colored kid, they'd have dome the same thing. They didn't go in for beating up Negroes because they were Negroes. What they did was keep the community decent to live in. What they did object to was obscenity and drinking."
Greetings,
What I write in the title may come as a shock to many African people around the world but it is truth. There are millions of African descendants today that belong to the blackmail, trade your soul, take a bloodoath to White Supremacy cults than any other people on Earth. There are more African people in the Christian religion than any other people on Earth. Not only are they Christians but they terrorize any African who criticizes the Bible and its numerous falsehoods, they establish Christian dominion wherever African people are in behalf of Rome knowingly and unknowingly but with passion. African Christians in Diaspora and on the continent have helped with the subtle sodomization of African children by pedophile priesthoods, they have helped covered up dirty pastors who have raped children. Christians have fought against community organizing on all fronts to create better and more prosperous African societies all over the planet in the name of prosperity Gospel. Christian prosperity gospel, which is also done in America, the U.K and the Caribbean essential aim is to tie up the charity money in the African descent communities to prevent independence of the people from the White Supremacist economic system. Most Christian pastors, ministers, clergy are Freemason Illuminati. The same can be said of Muslims, Freemason Illuminati Imans, Islamic African groups have waged war against other Africans because of Islam. African Muslims are heavily involved in joining Arabs in terrorism activities in Africa, including helping enslave other Africans by tricking and trafficking them to Arab countries for servant work. There are currently 14 million African people enslaved in Arab Muslim nations. African Muslims assassinated and murdered Malcolm X in front of his family, this is part of the history of their extreme violence towards African civilization re-establishing itself as independent. The two religions have created rival politics in Nigeria by Muslims bombing and attacking Christian Churches and by Christians secretly running domination community programs against all other faiths. All this and more are the reasons I give to declare, "People of African Descent Equal Partners In White Supremacy But Not In Status"
African Americans involved in Prince Hall Freemason and Greek Fraternities in the South of the United States willingly took part in Jim Crow lyncings. Many African Americans are members of Prince Hall Freemasons, which falls under the Scottish Rite Freemasonry, which is the same branch of Freemasonry that Albert Pike founder of the KKK, Southern Christian Knights, who organized Whites and Blacks into a secret social system that enforced the laws and codes of Jim Crow Era politics. President Donald Trump is a member of the Scottish Rite and that's how come many prominent African American leaders can be scene meeting with Trump, as they are now distancing themselves by calling Trump a racists, but they are not traitors? Many African American preachers, pastors, and businessmen, were involved in defaming innocent Black businessmen, scapegoating them for all the raping of African American women and children that were being down secretly by the KKK. Some total of 15,000 innocent Blackmen and sometimes entire families were lynched from 1872 up until 1968 after Anti-Lynching bill was passed in the U.S Congress. Yes this is their dirty little secret of what many had to do to enjoy the benefits of the White Supremacist system, kill their own. Evil isn't evil to someone if it isn't being done to them. This is the selfish nature of evil spirits.
Many African American apart of the Greek Illuminati system that rewards members who engage in sodomy rituals, hazing and bloodoath swearing to omit African civilization while swearing to uphold and protect Eurasian civilization. Many took part also in destroying the reputation of Booker T. Washington, poisoning him, as many took part in the character of assassination of Marcus Garvey, setting him up and sending him to prison and the into exile. Many Black Greeks were involved in the Tuskegee Experiments where Alabama Black Americans were lured into false medical treatment only to be injected with Syphilis virus. Thousands of them were infected who took this disease back to their communities and affected even more. The Black Greeks received Army Hospital jobs and exclusive economic opportunities for their Fraternity and Sorority members. The same phenomenon is occurring among the Black Greeks societies now who are promoting the homosexual agenda in entertainment, fashion, Congress, and in the Churches and Mosques. Many are being paid big money by the Whites to come out of the closet and promote homosexuality. Many Church pastors who are apart of the Freemason Greek Illuminati are preaching homosexual doctrine from the pulpit. But the biggest betrayal is the many African Americans who are involved in the subtle sodomization of African American children.
I can make the case strongly that African people are involved in White Supremacy going back before slavery and colonization up until today's time. How is that we are fighting White Supremacy when we are bloodoath sworn to protect it? How is that so many are silent to the treachery? How is that so many are silent to the worldwide suffering of our people many times at the hands of our own people? How come no one talks about the many African children snatched from their mothers to be sacrifices for evil devil rituals? angry All these phony Pan Africans who never mention anything about the people of African descent who are just as satanic and devil loving as the Whites and Arabs who oppress us. Do you think all our problems will just go away all by themselves? Do you really believe that with up stretched arms, love of your enemy, and blind faith we will solve our problems? And promoting this fake melanin science like Blacks don't have calcified pineal glands like Whites is pure treason. People of African descent can become possessed by evil spirits and act out demonic nature just like Whites, Arabs, and Jews. We must have checks and balances if we are to unite, or centralize our efforts. My message is the same as Omugobe Kabalega to his people at the time. We must study Omugobe Kabalega so that we can learn from his great lessons to African people on what we must properly do to confront White Supremacy and internal rot. We must expose evil or be devoured by it.
There will come a time when it will have been in vain that Egyptians have honored the Godhead with heartfelt piety and service; and all our holy worship will be fruitless and ineffectual. The Gods will return from earth to heaven; Egypt will be forsaken, and the land which was once the home of religion will be left desolate, bereft of the presence of its deities.
They will no longer love this world around us, this incomparable work of God, this glorious structure which he has built, this sum of good made up of many diverse forms, this instrument whereby the will of God operates in that which he has made, ungrudgingly favoring man's welfare.
Darkness will be preferred to light, and death will be thought more profitable than life; no one will raise his eyes to heaven; the pious will be deemed insane, the impious wise; the madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good.
As for the soul, and the belief that it is immortal by nature, or may hope to attain to immortality, as I have taught you; all this they will mock, and even persuade themselves that it is false. No word of reverence or piety, no utterance worthy of heaven, will be heard or believed.
And so the Gods will depart from mankind - a grievous thing and only demons will remain, who will mingle with men, and drive the poor wretches into all manner of reckless crime, into wars, and robberies, and frauds, and all things hostile to the nature of the soul.
Then will the earth tremble, and the sea bear no ships; heaven will not support the stars in their orbits, all voices of the Gods will be forced into silence; the fruits of the Earth will rot; the soil will turn barren, and the very air will sicken with sullen stagnation; all things will be disordered and awry, all good will disappear.
But when all this has befallen, then God the Creator of all things will look on that which has come to pass, and will stop the disorder by the counterforce of his will, which is the good. He will call back to the right path those who have gone astray; he will cleanse the world of evil, washing it away with floods, burning it out with the fiercest fire, and expelling it with war and pestilence.
You have got to listen carefully to the content of what this closet homosexual African American is talking about. He is referring to the 25,000 year cycle and how its split up between two royal houses of Africa. This is total nonsense but it gets to the motivate of African American secret pederast societies and how they think. Many of these Egyptian obsessed Negroes believe that they are the true Ancient Egyptians, which is only partially true. They fail to realize that their ancestors, the Northern Egyptians, aren't the ones who built the Great Pyramids but the ones to the South. The current African kingdoms to the South, which are the Bachwezi people are the ones who built the Great Pyramids and founded the Nile Valley civilization. It was the arrogance of the people of the Northern land, which Egypt was two lands, that caused the invasions because they kept inviting and mixing with foreigners plus they refused to pay tribute to the King of the South. As I've said before it has never failed to come true, African people who allied with Eurasians against other Africans were always betrayed by the Eurasians once they got rid of the strong Africans they then turned on them too! This is how Europeans and Arabs came to power in the first place. And they remain in power because of satanic Africans who are just cursed with corruption and false ideas. True some African Americans are the descendants of Ancient Egyptians were taken off of the coasts of West Africa after they had migrated from North Africa when Arabs invaded in 749 A.D. However, it was the Moors, who are also North Africans who sold them into slavery along with other Africans. The suffrage that African Americans endured has more to do with their ancestral karma and not the actual fault of African kings who did sell some of them into slavery. The Kings of West Africa mostly sold many in the beginning to Europeans because they were criminals. The early slaves were criminals and this can be obtained from many of the slave advertisements of European slavers warning buyers of the nature of the slaves they bought. The North Egyptians like the Greeks and Romans, along with Arabs that ruled over them were practicing all sorts of devilish culture. As I've stated what happened was the moral and spiritual fall of Africa before its eventual collapse. This is spiritual teaching and I pray you accept the truth of this investigation.
It is a great misunderstanding on the behalf of many African Americans because they don't familiarize themselves with African oral history.But instead they mix in some actual history with the poison history of the Roman Catholic Bible. The Bible must not be used as history because its bunch of myths and allegories taken from many cultural traditions. African Americans are no more chosen than any other group of Africans. We know it is imbalanced when we believe the branches will rule over the root. As I've stated firmly the change of Africa will begin in Africa not from outside.
What I write in the title may come as a shock to many African people around the world but it is truth. There are millions of African descendants today that belong to the blackmail, trade your soul, take a bloodoath to White Supremacy cults than any other people on Earth. There are more African people in the Christian religion than any other people on Earth. Not only are they Christians but they terrorize any African who criticizes the Bible and its numerous falsehoods, they establish Christian dominion wherever African people are in behalf of Rome knowingly and unknowingly but with passion. African Christians in Diaspora and on the continent have helped with the subtle sodomization of African children by pedophile priesthoods, they have helped covered up dirty pastors who have raped children. Christians have fought against community organizing on all fronts to create better and more prosperous African societies all over the planet in the name of prosperity Gospel. Christian prosperity gospel, which is also done in America, the U.K and the Caribbean essential aim is to tie up the charity money in the African descent communities to prevent independence of the people from the White Supremacist economic system. Most Christian pastors, ministers, clergy are Freemason Illuminati. The same can be said of Muslims, Freemason Illuminati Imans, Islamic African groups have waged war against other Africans because of Islam. African Muslims are heavily involved in joining Arabs in terrorism activities in Africa, including helping enslave other Africans by tricking and trafficking them to Arab countries for servant work. There are currently 14 million African people enslaved in Arab Muslim nations. African Muslims assassinated and murdered Malcolm X in front of his family, this is part of the history of their extreme violence towards African civilization re-establishing itself as independent. The two religions have created rival politics in Nigeria by Muslims bombing and attacking Christian Churches and by Christians secretly running domination community programs against all other faiths. All this and more are the reasons I give to declare, "People of African Descent Equal Partners In White Supremacy But Not In Status"
African Americans involved in Prince Hall Freemason and Greek Fraternities in the South of the United States willingly took part in Jim Crow lyncings. Many African Americans are members of Prince Hall Freemasons, which falls under the Scottish Rite Freemasonry, which is the same branch of Freemasonry that Albert Pike founder of the KKK, Southern Christian Knights, who organized Whites and Blacks into a secret social system that enforced the laws and codes of Jim Crow Era politics. President Donald Trump is a member of the Scottish Rite and that's how come many prominent African American leaders can be scene meeting with Trump, as they are now distancing themselves by calling Trump a racists, but they are not traitors? Many African American preachers, pastors, and businessmen, were involved in defaming innocent Black businessmen, scapegoating them for all the raping of African American women and children that were being down secretly by the KKK. Some total of 15,000 innocent Blackmen and sometimes entire families were lynched from 1872 up until 1968 after Anti-Lynching bill was passed in the U.S Congress. Yes this is their dirty little secret of what many had to do to enjoy the benefits of the White Supremacist system, kill their own. Evil isn't evil to someone if it isn't being done to them. This is the selfish nature of evil spirits.
Many African American apart of the Greek Illuminati system that rewards members who engage in sodomy rituals, hazing and bloodoath swearing to omit African civilization while swearing to uphold and protect Eurasian civilization. Many took part also in destroying the reputation of Booker T. Washington, poisoning him, as many took part in the character of assassination of Marcus Garvey, setting him up and sending him to prison and the into exile. Many Black Greeks were involved in the Tuskegee Experiments where Alabama Black Americans were lured into false medical treatment only to be injected with Syphilis virus. Thousands of them were infected who took this disease back to their communities and affected even more. The Black Greeks received Army Hospital jobs and exclusive economic opportunities for their Fraternity and Sorority members. The same phenomenon is occurring among the Black Greeks societies now who are promoting the homosexual agenda in entertainment, fashion, Congress, and in the Churches and Mosques. Many are being paid big money by the Whites to come out of the closet and promote homosexuality. Many Church pastors who are apart of the Freemason Greek Illuminati are preaching homosexual doctrine from the pulpit. But the biggest betrayal is the many African Americans who are involved in the subtle sodomization of African American children.
I can make the case strongly that African people are involved in White Supremacy going back before slavery and colonization up until today's time. How is that we are fighting White Supremacy when we are bloodoath sworn to protect it? How is that so many are silent to the treachery? How is that so many are silent to the worldwide suffering of our people many times at the hands of our own people? How come no one talks about the many African children snatched from their mothers to be sacrifices for evil devil rituals? angry All these phony Pan Africans who never mention anything about the people of African descent who are just as satanic and devil loving as the Whites and Arabs who oppress us. Do you think all our problems will just go away all by themselves? Do you really believe that with up stretched arms, love of your enemy, and blind faith we will solve our problems? And promoting this fake melanin science like Blacks don't have calcified pineal glands like Whites is pure treason. People of African descent can become possessed by evil spirits and act out demonic nature just like Whites, Arabs, and Jews. We must have checks and balances if we are to unite, or centralize our efforts. My message is the same as Omugobe Kabalega to his people at the time. We must study Omugobe Kabalega so that we can learn from his great lessons to African people on what we must properly do to confront White Supremacy and internal rot. We must expose evil or be devoured by it.
One of the last things today's biased media wants anyone to know is that there were Negro members of the Ku Klux Klan. No one has ever written a book about them to my knowledge though such a book would be of great historical interest. In fact, very little documentation has survived. What little does survive speaks volumes and proves that Americans do not know their own history. Here I will simply give my sources of information and quote from them. If anyone has further documentation about the Black membership of the KKK I'd be grateful to be referred to it. Should I come across more documentation I will list it here.
My first source of Negro Klan membership is the book, "The Ku Klux Spirit", by J.A. Rogers, noted Negro historian of the 1920's. The Ku Klux Spirit was first published in 1923, by Messenger Publishing Co. It was republished in 1980, by Black Classic Press. On page 34 of his book we find the amazing passage: "A fact not generally known is that there were thousands of Negro Klansmen. These were used as spies on other Negroes and on Northern Whites."
Very interesting. In the 1920's, there were plenty of original Klansmen still living as well as many other people of both races who lived during the Reconstruction Era. J.A. Rogers would have been able to interview many. Why would a Black historian make such a thing up? And if he did make it up there would have been plenty of people who would have objected. His book would not have survived to this day. Yet, it did.
My second source is a book written by a Carpetbagger, Albion Winegar Tourgee (1838-1905). In 1880 he published his book, "A Fool's Errand", (New York: Fords, Howard and Hubert). It was republished in 1989 by Louisiana State University Press as, "The Invisible Empire". On page 79 of his book we find the passage: "There were no Colored men in the band (of Klansmen) that night. Their hands were not covered. I could see their boots and pants, and I could judge from their hands and feet. Most of them were genteel people, besides being white people. I could also have told by their language if there had been any Colored people among them. Their language was that of white men, and cultivated men."
OK, why claim that no Colored men were riding with the Klan that night unless the witness had seen Colored men with the Klan on another occasion? The men were in their robes since the witness had to look at their uncovered hands to see that no Colored men were among them. If he's not telling the truth, why would a Carpetbagger, of all people, ever make such a thing up?
My third source is, "Ku Klux Klan, It's Origins, Growth, and Disbandment", by J.C. Lester (one of the six original founders of the first Ku Klux Klan) and D.L. Wilson (another early Klansman). The book was first published in 1884. (I have an original copy). Reprints of this book are available from us for $7.00. The book was re-printed in 1905. In that edition, Walter L. Fleming, Ph.D., added an introduction. Again in 1905, there were still plenty of original Klansmen and others who had lived during the Reconstruction Era. In the introduction we find Fleming's statement: "Many of the genuine Unionists later joined in the movement (the KKK), and there were some few Negro members, I have been told."
Now here we are told that there were "some few Negro members". Above we were told that there "were thousands of Negro Klansmen." But that is relative. When one considers that the original KKK had over 400,000 members "some few Negro members" could have totaled several thousand!
My fourth source is an more modern book, "Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography", by Jack Hurst. On page 305 we find this interesting quote: "...(the Klan was) reorganized to oppose radical proponents (the Radical Republicans) of what it perceived to be Black domination, NOT to scourge Blacks themselves. Although it has been written that Ku Klux Klan ranks were open only to the more than 100,000 honorably discharged ex-Confederate veterans, the hierarchy in some areas and some instances seems to have accepted and even recruited Blacks, provided they went along with Conservative-Democratic political philosophy. In Memphis of late 1868, sixty-five Blacks organized a "Colored Democratic Club" under the watchful eye of Klansman-editor Gallaway - - who according to an account in the Appeal, "made a motion on behalf of the White men present, that they give employment and protection to Colored democrats."
So, the Klan not only accepted and recruited Blacks in some areas, but a Klan leader made a motion that White men give employment and protection to Colored democrats. That in itself speaks volumes. Yes, volumes of ignored facts of Klan, Negro, and American history.My fifth source is the book: "Jesse James and the Lost Cause" by Jesse Lee James, Pageant Press, N.Y., 1961.
My sixth source is the book: "Jesse James was one of His Names" by Del Schrader with Jesse James III, Arcadia, CA, Santa Anna Press, 1975.
That is all I have for documentation that there were Negro members of the original Ku Klux Klan. But, that in itself, is enough to prove their existence! The only thing to do now is to discover more documentation of what may very well be the least known chapter in Black American history. I said before that Americans do not know their own history. In time I will add this to my web page, but how many of you know that there were millions of White slaves (not bonded servants, but true slaves for life) in this country? That there were free Negroes who owned slaves? That there were free Negroes who fought gallantly for the Confederate States? That the Confederate Army did not discriminate against, or pay unequally its Negro soldiers? This and more, in time will be added. But for now, back to the Klan.
When the Klan was revived in 1915 it was originally just for Protestant White men. In time the Klan added the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, teenager and children's groups, groups for the foreign born and Colored men.
Concerning the Colored Klansmen of the 20th century my first source is, "Women of the Klan, Racism and Gender in the 1920's", by Kathleen M. Blee. (1991, University of California Press). On page 169, we find the passage, " Even more strangely, the Klan tried to organize an order of Black Protestants, a Klan "Colored division" in Indiana and other states. Despite promises that the new order would have "all the rights of membership" of the White Klan, much preparation went into ensuring that the values of white supremacy would be preserved as the Klan expanded its racial base. The group was to wear red robes, white capes, and blue masks and was prohibited from being seen in public with White Klansmen or handling any membership funds."
Well, if any of you ever find such a red, white, and blue robe in an antique shop or old trunk somewhere it would be as significant an historical find as discovering an original Klan robe. Likewise with any photos of the Colored Klansmen, newspapers articles, or anything else pertaining to them. Let me know if you do. (I think I'll make a couple reproductions of their robes for display.) It is presently unknown just how far the Colored Man's Klan went or how long they lasted. When the men's Klan had to disband in 1944, the separate Women of the Ku Klux Klan organization did not. They changed their name to the Women's Christian Patriotic Association and continued up to the 1960's. Could this order of Black Protestants have changed its name and still be with us to this day with its origins unknown to historians as well as its own present members?
Now to further add to this my next source of information is from the KKK, itself. In their book, "K.K.K. Friend or Foe: Which?", by attorney Blaine Mast and published in 1924 a chapter is dedicated to discussing the KKK and its relationship to the Black population. In this chapter we see the passage:
"The KKK claims that there is no good reason why the Colored people may not form a Ku Klux Klan of their own, and, as far as the writer knows, such an institution may exist in America. Indeed, we were credibly informed that some months ago a Klan gathering took place in an adjoining state, which was attended by some 20 colored men, for a general invitation had been extended. Those Negroes were so favorably impressed with what a distinguished speaker said, and with the general character and demeanor of the meeting, that they approached the speaker and others in authority and inquired if it were not possible for the Colored people to form a Klan of their own race. If they could get permission to organize they were anxious to do so and hoped for assistance from the officers of the KKK. So, in this particular instance, at least, some Colored men had no fear in associating with Klansmen."
The chapter then went on to outline the ground work for such a Black Klan. It is of interest that in the same book, another chapter is dedicated to discussing the possible formation of a Jewish branch of the Ku Klux Klan. A reprint of this book is available from us for $7.00.
We have recently made a new historical find concerning Negroes in the KKK that you will find surprising. It appears that in some cases Whites and Blacks belonged to the same local chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. Our source of information is from the book: Hard Times by Studs Terkel (1970, New York). The book is about the conditions in this country during the Great Depression. On page 239 we read:
"The Ku Klux was formed on behalf of people that wanted a decent living, both black and white. Half the coal camp was colored. It wasn't anti-colored. The black people had the same responsibilities as the white. Their lawn was just as green as the white man's. They got the same rate of pay. There was two colored who belonged to it. I remember those two coming around my father and asking questions about it. They joined. The pastor of our community church was a colored man. He was Ku Klux. It was the only protection the working man had. ....... One time a Negro slapped a white boy. They didn't give him any warning. They whipped him and ran him out of town. If a white man slapped a colored kid, they'd have dome the same thing. They didn't go in for beating up Negroes because they were Negroes. What they did was keep the community decent to live in. What they did object to was obscenity and drinking."
can you provide links to authentic sites about african society before the coming of the europeans ,i am curious to know as i have not been able to locate an aunthentic site most sites are filled with fables
babasolution: can you provide links to authentic sites about african society before the coming of the europeans ,i am curious to know as i have not been able to locate an aunthentic site most sites are filled with fables
You have to dig for gold, I've never known gold to be discovered no other way.
The Yoruba system of oral history is very complex and it is more accurate than letter writing. The "tonemes" or tones, pitches for slang, are arranged in certain geometrical patterns. These are sacred geometry which are used in the creation of sacred pieces of art and fetishes, these can be used to store lineage information, names of kings, dates of events and detailed recordings of those events. What gets created in oral history are sound sequences, i.e patterns, that if off by one wrong pitch changes everything, so the pitch, tone has to be precise. One can easily verify the accuracy based upon the geometric mathematical sequence. Oral history is more accurate than Alphabet letter writing and I stand firm on that thought.
https://democracynow.org - In Maryland, closing arguments are scheduled to begin today for two Baltimore police officers who are part of what has been described as one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation. The officers were part of an elite plainclothes unit called the Gun Trace Task Force—but, according to prosecutors, the unit acted more like a criminal outfit. In his opening argument during the trial, the lead federal prosecutor, Leo Wise, said, “They were, simply put, both cops and robbers.” According to prosecutors, the officers stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from city residents. They broke into houses. They stole drugs and then gave them to drug dealers. They carried BB guns that they could plant on people they shot. Six members of the task force have already pleaded guilty. We speak to Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
