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| Harper's Weekly Documents for this Simulation In chronological order. | ||
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| FELLOW-CITIZENS AT THE FRONT Harper's Weekly, April 18, 1868, pages 242-243 (Editorial) Alabama newspaper talks about "ridding the community of political skunks" and forming a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. | ||
| DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE Harper's Weekly, April 18, 1868, page 243 (News Brief) General Meade issues an order for the suppression of the Ku Klux Klan. | ||
| DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE Harper's Weekly, April 25, 1868, page 259 (News Brief) Attack on a Ku Klux meeting in St. Louis in which 20 people, mostly boys, were arrested. | ||
| DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE Harper's Weekly, May 9, 1868, page 291 (News Brief) A member of the Ku Klux Klan was killed in Mississippi by some African-Americans he had been trying to frighten. | ||
| PURE REASON Harper's Weekly, June 27, 1868, page 403 (Editorial) Two or three African-Americans murdered in South Carolina. | ||
| THE LINES DRAWN Harper's Weekly, July 18, 1868, page 450 (Editorial) Editorial on the Presidential Election of 1868 sees the South and the violence of the Ku Klux Klan as an important part of the Democratic Party's campaign. | ||
| ONE VOTE LESS Harper's Weekly, August 8, 1868, page 512 (Cartoon) Cartoon by Thomas Nast on an African-American killed by the Ku Klux Klan. | ||
| LOUISIANA Harper's Weekly, August 22, 1868, page 531 (Editorial) Governor Warmouth of Louisiana estimates 150 persons have been murdered. | ||
| DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE Harper's Weekly, October 10, 1868, page 643 (News Brief) President of the Registration Board and several African-Americans killed by Ku Klux Klan in Arkansas. | ||
| THE DEMOCRATIC HELL-BROTH Harper's Weekly, October 31, 1868, page 704 (Cartoon) Thomas Nast cartoon ties Ku Klux Klan to Democratic Party during 1868 Presidential Election. | ||
| DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE Harper's Weekly, November 7, 1868, page 707 (News Brief) Member of Congress from Arkansas assassinated by Ku Klux Klan. | ||
| DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY Harper's Weekly, November 21, 1868, page 747 (Cartoon) Cartoon by Thomas Nast shows mask of the Ku Klux Klan. | ||
| DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE Harper's Weekly, December 12, 1868, page 787 (News Brief) Alabama legislature discusses bill for abolition of the Ku Klan Klan. | ||
| KU-KLUXISM Harper's Weekly, December 19, 1868, page 813-814 (Illustrated Article) Article and illustration on Ku-Kluxism. | ||
| DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE Harper's Weekly, January 2, 1869, page 3 (News Brief) Resolutions adopted in House of Representatives to investigate Klan outrages in Tennessee. | ||
| DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE Harper's Weekly, January 16, 1869, page 35 (News Brief) Reports from Augusta, Arkansas say there is no security for life or property. | ||
| DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE Harper's Weekly, February 6, 1869, page 83 (News Brief) Governor Brownlow of Tennessee is about to organize and arm 2,000 militiamen to suppress Ku Klux Klan. | ||
| DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE Harper's Weekly, March 20, 1869, page 179 (News Brief) General George Stoneman issues order informing civil officers of Virginia if they do not arrest the authors of outrages there he will send his troops. | ||
| MURDER AND SENTIMENTALITY Harper's Weekly, January 1, 1870, page 3 (Editorial) Editorial on murder of union men in Georgia. | ||
| THE NORTH CAROLINA TROUBLES Harper's Weekly, August 20, 1870, page 530 (Editorial) Editorial on power of Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina. | ||
| GOOD SENSE IN POLITICS Harper's Weekly, December 17, 1870, page 810 (Editorial) Editorial sees Ku Klux Klan activities in Kentucky as a sign of a return to the disputes which led to the Civil War. | ||
| NOTES Harper's Weekly, March 25, 1871, page 259 (News Brief) Report calls for the complete destruction of the Ku Klux Klan. | ||
| THE KU-KLUX Harper's Weekly, April 1, 1871, page 282 (Editorial) Long editorial on the power of the Ku Klux Klan. | ||
| A WORD TO CONGRESS Harper's Weekly, April 8, 1871, page 306 (Editorial) President Grant at the request of the Governor of South Carolina orders Ku Klux Klan to disperse within 20 days. | ||
| DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE Harper's Weekly, April 8, 1871, page 307 (News Brief) Adelbert Ames said that 800 Republicans had been murdered in Louisiana in the last 60 days. | ||
| THE KU-KLUX BILL Harper's Weekly, April 15, 1871, page 330 (Editorial) Editorial on proposed Ku Klux Klan Bill. | ||
| DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE Harper's Weekly, April 15, 1871, page 331 (News Brief) Governor James Alcorn of Mississippi announces awards for detection of the Ku Klux Klan. | ||
| THE SWORD AND THE OLIVE-BRANCH Harper's Weekly, April 22, 1871, page 355 (Editorial) Editorial on Ku Klux Klan Bill. | ||
| THE APOLOGISTS OF THE KU-KLUX Harper's Weekly, April 29, 1871, page 378 (Editorial) Editorials on the apologists of the Ku Klux Klan and on the issue of the Ku Klux Klan and amnesty. | ||
| THE KU-KLUX DOWN SOUTH Harper's Weekly, May 6, 1871, page 407 (Cartoon) Cartoon by Frank Bellew suggests the Ku Klux Klan opposes immigration. | ||
| REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES - DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES Harper's Weekly, May 6, 1871, page 408 (Cartoon) Cartoon suggests Ku Klux Klan and Democratic Party are trying to revive slavery. | ||
| A GLAD WELCOME Harper's Weekly, May 13, 1871, pages 426-427 (Editorial) Ku Klux Klan violence against black workmen near Charlotte, North Carolina. | ||
| THE PEOPLE AND THE KU-KLUX Harper's Weekly, May 20, 1871, page 451 (Editorial) Editorial on President Grant's proclamation under the Ku Klux Klan law. | ||
| THE LESSON OF THE KU-KLUX Harper's Weekly, May 27, 1871, page 474 (Editorial) Editorial on truth of reports about the Ku Klux Klan. | ||
| THE ANNIVERSARIES Harper's Weekly, May 27, 1871, pages 474-475 (Editorial) Wendell Phillips on the Ku Klux Klan. | ||
| U.S. COLORED TROOPS Harper's Weekly, May 27, 1871, page 479 (Cartoon) Cartoon in which "U. S. Colored Troops" rout Ku Klux Klan. | ||
| MR. GREELEY’S SPEECH Harper's Weekly, July 1, 1871, page 594 (Editorial) Horace Greeley on the Ku Klux Klan and other matters. | ||
| FREE HOMES FOR ALL Harper's Weekly, July 8, 1871, page 632 (Advertisement) Land offered free for a year in Clinton, Louisiana for all but Ku Klux Klan members. | ||
| THE KU-KLUX Harper's Weekly, November 4, 1871, pages 1026-1027 (Editorial) Editorial on lynching. | ||
| EXCUSING THE KU-KLUX Harper's Weekly, November 25, 1871, page 1098 (Editorial) Article on Reverdy Johnson and Ku Klux Klan and the anti-Klan legislation. | ||
| THE SOUTHERN STATES Harper's Weekly, December 23, 1871, page 1194 (Editorial) Extended article on the conditions in the South which gave birth to Ku Klux Klan. | ||
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