- Collection:
- Marion Johnson Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Ku Klux Klan Rally
- Creator:
- Johnson, Marion, 1917-1998
- Date of Original:
- 1948-09-23
- Subject:
- Organizations--Georgia
Uniforms--1940-1950
Crosses
Meetings--Georgia--Stone Mountain
Fire
Ku Klux Klan (1915-)--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, Stone Mountain, 33.80816, -84.1702
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of a Ku Klux Klan rally on Stone Mountain in Georgia.
The Ku Klux Klan is a vigilante organization founded in 1866 for the purposes of opposing Republican Reconstruction efforts in the South and maintaining white supremacy. The group has experienced fluctuating periods of revival and decline. In 1915, a second incarnation of the Klan was founded in Stone Mountain, Georgia by ex-minister William Simmons. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 33.142.10
ahc033142010a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/MJohnson/id/628
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white safety film
- Original Collection:
- Marion Johnson Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
