Summer 1952: Crackdown on the Ku Klux Klan in Columbus County and Horry County, S.C. He would become “Grand Dragon” of the state organization. Jones would later brag that his mother proudly marched in a Klan parade when she was seven months pregnant with him. His father is a railroad worker, and both parents are active in the Ku Klux Klan. Griffith’s film “The Birth of a Nation” in 1915.ġ930: Bob Jones is born outside Salisbury. March 1871: Holden is removed from office.ġ905: North Carolinian Thomas Dixon publishes the novel “The Clansman,” which would be the basis for D.W. November 1870: White supremacists gain control of the General Assembly and impeach Holden for using the militia against the Klan. Nearly 100 Klan suspects are arrested but none are tried. William Woods Holden declares a state of insurrection in Alamance and Caswell counties. 26, 1870: Graham town commissioner Wyatt Outlaw, an African-American, is lynched by a band of Klansmen, leading to the Kirk-Holden War of 1870. The Invisible Empire is centered in Cleveland and Rutherford counties.įeb. The White Brotherhood, numbering 600-700, and the Constitutional Union Guard, numbering about 100, are centered in the Alamance County area. Functioning independently, the three have largely autonomous local leadership, though they often have overlapping memberships. 1868: Klan first appears in North Carolina.ġ868-71: Three Klan groups operate in North Carolina.
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