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.
29 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.
I was going to say the same thing. Ivy League Colleges are continuing the KKK idea. Higher education, Ha!
The book Terror in the Night by Jack Nelson tells about the local klan and their battles with Jews...lots of good folks in there who fought the klan, and my attractive then 23 year old 5th grade teacher at Duling (1963/64) who's double life included being a nightrider with the klan and losing her life doing it...(Kathy Ainsworth )
Interesting that the klan has so much in common with jihad terrorists.
I guess fanatics of all stripes have more in common with each other than they do the rest of society.
Back in the day, my father was concerned because his Boss wanted him to join the Citizens Council. I don’t know what the dues were but he refused to be pressured into joining
@ 4:31 Yea, I agree. The fanatical left has made it easy to spot them with the pink hair, heavy tatts, pale skin and Biden-Harris t-shirts.
Kathy Capomachia (Ainsworth) was my baby sitter when my parents were out of town. She used to buy me cap guns and once took me to a bonfire but told me to not tell my parents when they got home. I remember listening to Farmer Jim Neil announcing her death on the radio the morning after she died. My mom told me that the clan had killed her. In a way they did.
First, who knows if this is a hoax or authentic. First all we know, this could be a reprimanded for a film or project. Second, while it is unique, why the scrutiny? I’d be more interested in releasing and reviewing current members of Code Blue.
1:42 for today's win!
BTW, just about every white man in MS was in the Klan. I retired to small town MS and based on what I heard, it was as common as belonging to the First Baptist Church. My 8 years of retirement caused me to actually live in this state 24/7. That experience opened my eyes. I moved! I’m only a one generation Mississippian. I had myself brainwashed in thinking MS was great until I learned the truth.
But, hey, look how much better things are now.
The KKK hated black people. They killed and intimidated them so they would not vote. Voter suppression was the goal. In the early 1900s MS was 75-80% black. That scared white people. Hence the violence and the great migration to the north in the 1930s - 1950s. The north needed labor and blacks needed out.
The idea that the KKK did not and does not hate blacks is absurd on its face.
The KKK hated Jews because Jews funded the freedom rides and the fight for civil rights for black people. It’s that simple.
Today? We are in another war at the request of Israel. Our countries are inseparable it seems. Iran financing proxy groups to kill and maim? That’s not tolerable imho. If your life goal is to kill another based on an immutable characteristic then you deserve what you get. Peace could be had as simple as a truce initiated by Iran leaving Israel alone.
Until then we all will suffer and it will get (is) very very ugly.
@ 7:43. That's an outrageous lie and you should know it!!
I'm 78, white, lived here all my life, moved into and out of multiple counties including several in the Delta as well as Natchez (reportedly a Klan hot-bed).
I've not ever seen nor met nor have I known a Klan member of which I'm aware.
7:43 "heard" all white people are in the klan. 10:56 thinks no one was in the klan.
The rest of us understand the truth was somewhere between those two extremes, as it usually is.
7:43 is spreading his propaganda and lies about Mississippi in his new home state. No wonder Mississippi struggles to attract investment, business and new residents. Maybe he is an incognito NYT reporter. Thanks, 7:43, for keeping your regionalism hatred going strong. I'm sure it impresses your coworkers and neighbors when you spew racist lies about our state.
I would imagine there are a good percentage of the names on the dues list that paid dues due to society pressure and work/boss pressure. Paying dues does not indicate hate or a killer. Kind of how certain people are disrespected and cancelled today when they take views different than the majority of their group.
Are we going to get a new Klanpost today or has this clickbait been milked dry?
I myself working on a story about a family of sasquatches wrecking a Klan cross burning ceremony.
It will be a lot more believable than most of the blog posts and comments posted so far.
Sasquatch is in the Klan too?
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