<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, Stone Mountain, 33.80816, -84.1702</dc:coverage><dc:date>1950</dc:date><dc:description>View of a Ku Klux Klan rally on Stone Mountain, in Stone Mountain, Georgia.</dc:description><dc:description>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.</dc:description><dc:description>This work is filed as an image collected by Kenneth Rogers, the photographer is unknown.</dc:description><dc:format>image/jpeg</dc:format><dc:identifier>VIS 82.486.01</dc:identifier><dc:identifier>ahc082486001a.jpg</dc:identifier><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:source>Kenneth Rogers Photographs, Atlanta History Center</dc:source><dc:subject>Organizations--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:subject>Uniforms</dc:subject><dc:subject>Crosses</dc:subject><dc:subject>Ku Klux Klan (1915-)--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:subject>Ku Klux Klan (1915-)--Meetings</dc:subject><dc:title>Ku Klux Klan, circa 1950</dc:title><dc:type>StillImage</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>