her speech:
North Carolina State Commissioned Report:
http://www.ah.
UNCA Libraries have this book online- look for
"The Life and Speeches of Charles Brantly Aycock"
Very informative! Link to the Charlotte Observer Special Edition "The
Ghosts of 1898"
http://www.charlott
n/
"Something monstrous engulfed the port city of Wilmington 108 years
ago. This event unleashed a racist culture that would set back
generations of African Americans in North Carolina, as well as the
entire South.
And yet, an accurate account of the so-called "Wilmington Race Riot
of 1898" never found its way into our history books, much less our
consciousness. Even now, most people who were born in this state know
little to nothing about it.
The Charlotte Observer and the News & Observer of Raleigh will
jointly publish a special section, called "The Ghosts of 1898," to
help fill this gap in North Carolina's history.
We do this now because a commission appointed by the N.C. legislature
in 2000 has just completed the most exhaustive research to date on
the facts surrounding the events in Wilmington.
We also do it because our newspapers failed to report the truth the
first time. Even worse, history shows that both newspapers avidly
supported the powerful white supremacy movement that triggered the
violence and ultimately overthrew Wilmington's elected city
government."
http://www.nccultur
The 1898 May 12th, keynote speech by Aycock that was the kickoff to
the "white supremacy" Democrat Campaign at Laurinburg, NC along with
fellow white supremacist and speaker- Asheville native Locke Craig.
Link leads to Political Cartoons and Ads
http://www.lib.
http://www.lib.
http://www.ah.
All the above links are excellent sources. Hope they are helpful in
making your conclusions.
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> Col. Rice implied during her speech at the YMI Drugstore that most of her claims were
> supported by the research contained in the books UNFOUNDED LOYALTY and A SHORT
> HISTORY OF RECONSTRUCTION.
MORE:
From "A Brief History of the Original Ku Klux Klan: 1865 - 1869"
The removal of the old pre-war governments helped the Klan to get to power in Southern states. Because Klan adherents were politically orientated to Democrats, they defeated the Republicans, the Reconstruction and its governments.
With Tennessee being the exception, the Democratic Party soon was lifted up to the executive. The political instability after the Civil War increased the fascination of the Klan within Southern population. With its Klan program it seemed to solve the Southern problems.
http://www.hausarbe
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From "Hooded Progressivism: The secret reformist history of the Ku Klux Klan"
The Klan controlled the governments of Indiana, Oregon, and Colorado, elected other politicians across the country, and played a major role in the Democratic convention of 1924;
Some progressives had been antiwar as well, of course, among them the Wisconsin senator Robert LaFollette, and any argument connecting the Klan to the progressive impulse should take account of the fact that it opposed him strenuously when he ran for president on a third-party ticket in 1924. In fact, the 1924 election indicates the extent to which the Klan was entangled with the progressives. For that was the year of the Democrats' infamous "klanbake" convention, when Klansmen participated heavily as delegates and blocked a platform plank that would have condemned their order. They also entered the presidential race, mostly to oppose the candidacy of Al Smith, who as an anti-prohibitionist and a Catholic was anathema to the group, but also to back a candidate of their own. There was a southern conservative in the race, Sen. Oscar Underwood of Alabama, but he was a critic of the Klan. Instead they endorsed the Californian William McAdoo, son-in-law to the late President Wilson. The convention was deadlocked, and the Democrats wound up picking a compromise candidate, John Davis, whose other claim to fame would be to argue the segregationist side in Brown v. Board of Education three decades later.
http://www.reason.
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