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- GLC#
- GLC09386
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- circa 1868
- Title
- [KKK broadside]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 44.4 cm, Width: 20.1 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
"KKK" surrounding large crude woodcut of coffin under skull and crossbones. "The Trial Is At Hand! / The appointed day and hour will soon come!! Fail not-& if thou dost-**** / At night when the clock strikes **…[inserted in Ms: "the Stars Means to night 7 o clock"] be ye faithful unto your trust- nor wind, nor hail, nor rain, nor storm, nor conscience, nor craven fear, shall excuse. / Dost Hear! Dost Heed! / Thus now do I call, and yet Once Again, and if ye heed not*****-***- / K.X.R.T.E.H.Y. / Cyclopean, Seeretary [sic]. / By order of the Grand Cyclops!!" Ryland Randolph, editor of Independent Monitor, and Grand Cyclops of Ku Klux Klan Den, Tuscaloosa, AL. Only known broadside of Reconstruction Era Ku Klux Klan.
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