The Ku Klux Klan leadership encouraged its members to use BB guns, stink bombs, and mad dogs to harass blacks and civil rights protestors in the 1960' in Mississippi. The Klan gave specific instructions on how to harass its enemies in a series of memos issued to membership. The memos are part of a collection of Klan documents discovered at the Mississippi Department of Public Safety last week.
An employee discovered a long-forgotten briefcase in a closet at DPS as the agency prepares to move to its new headquarters in Rankin County. The briefcase contained a collection of historical rattlesnakes, courtesy of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. A Klan robe, hood, and various Klan documents such as Klorans and meeting minutes filled the briefcase. DPS Commissioner Sean Tindall transferred the briefcase and its contents to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
Why did the agency even have this collection? Who knows. However, it is known the FBI had an informant inside the Highway Patrol. Thus it would not be surprising if FBI informant Manyard King, the Highway Patrolman referred to as "Mr. X" in Mississippi Burning collected as much information as possible on the Klan for his federal friends.
JJ managed to snag this bit of history. The collection has over 150 documents and photos. As usual, JJ will post the documents. However, JJ does not want to overwhelm the reader so it will post the documents in batches so they are easier to digest.
This material is a part of the state's dark past when the tyranny of racism reigned supreme. However, this website has always believed in reporting the past, good and bad, as history is history. When history is forgotten, the future almost always reminds us of past sins as we commit them again. This website covered the lynchings, whipping of blacks at the Capitol, and other racial crimes from the past. This post is published in the same vein.
What is posted below is not published to glorify the Klan but how a terrorist group in Mississippi operated as the briefcase takes off the mask the Klan used so well to terrorize its fellow Mississippians. The materials are predictable, making the usual remarks about segregation, white pride, and communist plots to overthrow the government through the Civil Rights Movement.
When studying the collection, one is struck by how organized the Klavern in Mississippi was. The documents often read like something from the Rotary Club or a local government. There are committees, agendas, detailed minutes, lists of fees paid (and unpaid), and rosters.
Much as the Nazis documented their crimes through film and print, so did the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi. The Klan distributed to members instructions on how to harass civil rights protestors and blacks. Such instructions are a window into Klan thinking.
One document titled "Harassment" provides specific instruction on the finer points of harassment:
The stated goal of such harassment was to pressure "the enemy" to make mistakes. It warned against aliens and alien authorities (Alien defined as anyone not a member of the Klan).
The Klan justified using more deadly harassment at night. It ceded the streets to the protesters during the day in another memo to members:
The memo even directs members to accumulate weapons and drill accordingly.
No form of harassment went unnoticed by these klukkers. There is a memo directing these "knights" on how to engage in telephone harassment:
Members are reminded the Klan "is a nocturnal organization" that "works best at night." The memo urges members to avoid street fights and engaging protests. Detailed stuff indeed.
The documents are posted below with no redactions.
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28 comments:
Close to, if not pure evil.
Interesting that the guiding proverb at the top of the page is attributed brown-skinned people.
I guess they weren't so inferior after all.
For those who don’t know, you’re allowed to visit the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and view/copy the historical records there. Really nice place and under-utilized by the public. Good on Commissioner Tindell preserving this history and handing it to the appropriate preservationists.
Bet there will be one item you will forget to post.
And remember for most of the time this state has been established, the activities of these thugs were protected by the law enforcement agencies of this state. In fact many WERE the law enforcement.
reads kinda like a current day Antifa manual
And originated under the Democratic Party.
True, very true. The Klan was their enforcement branch.
And in a few short years after 1965 voting rights act….all those democrats became Republicans and so began the Republican Party we still have today ..which same party wants to stop all legal citizens from voting to this very minute….
Thank you 3:19 for reminding those not old enough to know that it was their Democrat "friends and neighbors" who sponsored these people. And to 5:08, let's be a bit more specific concerning your claim - everyone is entitled to an opinion, but the masses are looking for facts, not your opinion.
@5:08 PM - Thanks for the fake news from The View.
I’m so glad we got rid of this evil and have the far better and safer society that we have today!
For another first hand account read the book Devils Walking, by Stanley Nelson.
5:08 republicans love forgetting about Strom Thurmond and his switching from the dixiecrats to the current Republican party. They will also claim Abraham Lincoln while saying Black people are the problem.
Democrats have forgotten about Senator Byrd, who was praised by Hilary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.
5:53 pm on 3/26: You seem not to know married, widowed and divorced women who have voted for decades will have to get a passport to vote or legally change our names back to our parents' surname. I have a valid passport and it took months, personal time and money to apply to get one. If any of the female married, divorced or widowed in your life don't know and find out, they'll know how mean or stupid you are! And, they'll feel stupid for trusting and believing in any of the men who didn't tell the truth or admit they were ignorant about getting a passport!
Let's not forget the Klan didn't stick to just those methods. They were at terrorist group of thugs who lynched / murdered and engaged in property destruction as well. The guys who wanted to maintain a "civilized veneer" became The White Citizens Council. Some of who lived through those bad times are still alive ,still appalled and don't for a minute believe this new " white wash".
I’m still trying to get a Democrat to name more than 2 people in this great switch myth they somehow have been made to believe in.
The work should appear to be a joke. Sounds like the “ratfucking” tactics practiced by Daniel Segretti, et al, of the Committee to Re-Elect the President back yonder in ‘72.
How does what you say, not agree with my divorced daughter's experience with obtaining a passport? She has had no difficulty obtaining a passport.
I have to agree with 8:47 (could do without the "back yonder" bit, though). And I would add that the "evidence" seems carefully crafted-&-planted, to be discovered at the right moment (probably, that "right moment" was envisioned as being a couple of years into the future, rather than a half-century into the future).
Maybe it was the picture of the small WOMAN'S SUITCASE, complete with satin-covered elastic straps in the lid, for holding a lady's mirror and hairbrush (if the cheap POWDER BLUE "briefcase" pictured in earlier iterations of this story, is what's described here). But my first thought, was the "Klan" meeting, in 'Black Alice', a '60s absurdist dark comedy novel by Thom Demijohn. (the book's target audience was teenage girls of mixed race, which is exactly what I was, when I read it)
As I'm remembering the book, there wasn't a single "Kluxxer" at the rally, who wasn't an agent of some sort (except for Alice's greedy father, who'd died her skin black, frizzed her hair, and hidden her in an inner city brothel, in order to extract money from Alice's trust funds, via Ransom).
The various agents at the rally, didn't know the others were agents, and it's all that saved Alice's father from being exposed as a Faux Kluxxer (since ALL the Kluxxers were Faux Kluxxers, anyway).
Back before Odysee got bought-out-&-censored, and before Rumble's adware got so aggressive, it was easy to watch 'Plandemic 3', definitely the best of the series, which delves into Twentieth Century History, and early efforts to demoralize, dispossess, and control America's populace. There's historic video from the period, totally germane to the topic under discussion here, explaining how and why these operations were being carried-out.
Both "sides" in the Civil Rights Struggle, were being incited by the same entities.
A passport and/or amended birth certificate should not be required for women, whose last name now differs from that of their birth certificate, to be able to vote. Period.
That is an intentional and onerous hurdle for women to exercise their constitutional right to vote.
I suspect people who support it believe, deep down, that a husband should have the right to cast his wife's vote. (probably the same types who believe the Bible forbids women from speaking in a church).
The 19th amendment was one of the biggest mistakes this nation ever made. Get over it. We are mitigating it before it’s too late!
The Bible is plain when it comes to the role of women, they are to exercise no authority over a man. You can type me anyway you want to, I will make my stand with, and for the Bible.
You morons would fit in great in Afghanistan. I feel for any women in your life.
12:15/1:55: At least you're honest about the true ideology behind the Save Act.
And 1:55, your interpretation of the Bible on this issue is not the only one. Just in case you didn't know that.
have you looked at the birthrates on this planet for every feminist nation vs non-feminist? Women with so called “rights” are literally killing their own populations only to have them be replaced by third world women without any concept of “rights”
The survival of western civilization is too important to be in the control of selfish, short-sighted feminazis who dare you to hold them accountable for their own self-destructive stupidity!
4:39, If you want to raise children that badly, have you considered adoption?
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