In today's edition of the Klan Chronicles, JJ is publishing a ledger containing a list of dues-paying KKK members from the 1960s. The ledger is part of a collection of Klan documents discovered at the Mississippi Department of Public Safety this 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.
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.
Posted below is a roster of dues-paying members. Some readers may recognize - or think they recognize - names on the list. The ledger does not contain their addresses, hometowns, or any other identifying information other than their names.
11 comments:
Every person I find is Tylertown or McComb. This ledger must have been for that chapter in that area.
While I recognize some names, I’m not really sure what to do with the 60 year old knowledge?
Damn glad I missed those meetings!
Nothing, what’s there to be done?
11:17, If any of those people are one of your elders, you can question the motives and validity of their teachings.
I remember in 1998 when the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission files were released, I had a family member that JUST knew they would be in them...they weren't...
@11:58 AM
why? seriously curious because just looking at Jackson today makes me wonder why you think that?
Many of those names are Walthall countians who lived north of Tylertown, specifically near the Salem community.
@12:27 grand pappy was the head dragon man
Most of these people are dead by now. Not sure what, if any, value this brings to modern society and find no virtue to imputing "shame" to their descendants.
Back in the early 1970s, I met and spoke with a Klansman. I asked him why they hated blacks. His response was telling.
"We don't hate them. We just want to be separate from them. They have their culture and we have ours. We want separation. It is the Jews that we hate."
This sounds like it was recently spoken by an Ivy League administrator. They have separate dorms and separate graduation ceremonies, all determined by race. Harvard gave a large grant to a student who physically attacked a Jewish student. Then Harvard appointed as Grand Marshall for the commencement ceremony another student who physically attack a Jewish student.
Yesterday's KKK is today's Ivy League.
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