- Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Ku Klux Klan, circa 1950
- Date of Original:
- 1950
- Subject:
- Organizations--Georgia
Uniforms
Crosses
Ku Klux Klan (1915-)--Georgia
Ku Klux Klan (1915-)--Meetings - 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 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.
This work is filed as an image collected by Kenneth Rogers, the photographer is unknown. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 82.486.01
ahc082486001a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/Rogers/id/1260
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
