This month the Ku Klux Klan begins taking shape in the Pulaski, Tennessee law office of Thomas M. Jones. The six men who establish the KKK maintain long-held beliefs, as do most white Southerners, in white supremacy and black servitude. Union efforts to bring equality to freedmen further fuel their anger. From this mix of…
The white citizens of Virginia are busy trying to re-order state, economy and industry. Today, following an opening prayer by Richmond Baptist minister Rev. Jeremiah Jeter, the Virginia legislature in session reviews bills pertaining to the extension of debts, the repairing and resumption of railroads, the restoration of banks, and the re-stabilizing of various public…
Passed in the United States Senate on April 8, 1864, and the U.S. House on January 31, 1865, a proposed national amendment formally abolishing slavery in the United States is ratified by Georgia this day. Georgia’s approval represents the threshold of three-fourths of the states needed to make the act an amendment to the U.S.…