White terror : the Ku Klux Klan conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction / Allen W. Trelease ; new foreword by Karen L. Cox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trelease, Allen W., author.

Contributor:

Cox, Karen, 1962- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

White supremacy movements--United States--History.

White supremacy movements.

Ku Klux Klan (19th century).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (660 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge, Louisiana : Louisiana State University Press, 2023.

Summary:

White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern by Allen W. Trelease is a seminal text that examines the origins and activities of the first Ku Klux Klan during the Reconstruction Era in the Southern United States. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the Klan's establishment in Tennessee and its subsequent expansion throughout the South. Trelease challenges the romanticized myths of the Klan as white saviors, offering a corrective to previous historical narratives influenced by the Lost Cause and the Dunning School. The work explores the Klan's role in postwar Southern politics and its violent efforts to restore white supremacy. This comprehensive study is intended for historians, researchers, and students interested in U.S. history, particularly the themes of racial violence and Reconstruction. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword, 2022

Preface to the Original Edition

Introduction: Radical Reconstruction: The Reluctant Revolution

PART I: KLAN BEGINNINGS IN TENNESSEE 1866–1868

Chapter 1. The Birth and Transformation of the Ku Klux Klan, 1866–1867

Chapter 2. Expansion and Violence in Tennessee, 1868

PART II: EXPANSION THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH, SPRING AND SUMMER, 1868

Chapter 3. Organization and Expansion

Chapter 4. The South Atlantic States

Chapter 5. Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky

Chapter 6. The Trans-Mississippi States

PART III: THE KLAN FAILS TO ELECT A PRESIDENT, 1868

Chapter 7. The Southeast and Kentucky

Chapter 8. Louisiana

Chapter 9. Texas: The Knights of the Rising Sun

Chapter 10. The Arkansas Militia vs. the Ku Klux Klan

Chapter 11. Tennessee: Abortive Martial Law and Disbandment

PART IV. THE KLAN IN 1869 AND 1870

Chapter 12. North Carolina: The Terror in Alamance

Chapter 13. North Carolina: The Kirk-Holden War, 1870

Chapter 14. Georgia and Florida: Warren County and the Conservative Conquest of Georgia

Chapter 15. Alabama: Terrorism in the Western Black Belt

Chapter 16. Alabama: The Northern Counties, and the 1870 Campaign

Chapter 17. Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky

PART V. THE CULMINATION OF THE KU KLUX TERROR, 1871

Chapter 18. Mississippi: The Campaign Against Schools Generated by AI.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807180235

0807180238

OCLC:

1433206701