- Collection:
- Marion Johnson Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Ku Klux Klan Rally, circa 1950
- Creator:
- Johnson, Marion, 1917-1998
- Date of Original:
- 1950
- Subject:
- Organizations--Georgia
Meetings--Georgia
Crowds--Georgia
Ku Klux Klan (1915-)--Georgia
Ku Klux Klan (1915-)--Meetings - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of a Ku Klux Klan rally in Stone Mountain, 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 33.145.01
ahc033145001a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/MJohnson/id/630
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white safety film
- Original Collection:
- Marion Johnson Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
