- Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Ku Klux Klan, circa 1935
- Creator:
- Johnson, Marion, 1917-1998
- Date of Original:
- 1935
- Subject:
- Organizations--Georgia
Demonstrations--Georgia--Wrightsville
Crosses
Cities and towns--Georgia
Clothing and dress--1930-1940
Children--1930-1940
Uniforms
Fire
Ku Klux Klan (1915-)--Georgia
Ku Klux Klan (1915-)--Meetings - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Johnson County, Wrightsville, 32.72933, -82.71986
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of a Ku Klux Klan cross burning folowing a parade Wrightsville, 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.
This work is filed as an image collected by Kenneth Rogers, the photographer is Marion Johnson. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 82.487.01
ahc082487001a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/Rogers/id/1225
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
