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…
As the year draws to a close and a week following the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing slavery, few white Southern Baptists in state newspapers bother to discuss the advance of freedom in America. Rather, today’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald contains articles about a variety of other items and issues. Temperance is…
In Richmond this day, the white ministers of the city meet at the First Baptist Church to discuss arrangements for opening with prayer the daily sessions of the Virginia legislature: “The Clergy of Richmond having been, by resolution of the House of Delegates, invited, “by arrangement and concert among themselves, to open the daily sessions…