Henry Wilson, History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, vol. 3 (1877), pp. 642-643, "The Ku-Klux Klan"

SUMMARYHenry Wilson, History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, vol. 3 (1877), pp. 642-643, "The Ku-Klux Klan"
What it shows: Klan campaign against colored schools and teachers, 1868-1871.
Key lines on screen: in 1871 in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, a large number of the teachers of the colored schools received warnings to stop their schools; "Twenty-six schools in that vicinity were closed by direction of these bands"; a female teacher was visited at midnight by over eighty armed men and ordered to close; Rev. Dr. Murff, director of free schools, threatened; Rev. A. S. Larkin's memoranda: thirty-two murders and three hundred forty-one whippings in Northern Alabama, 1868-1871; Governor Parsons said he never knew of a conviction for the murder of a negro.
Author: Henry Wilson, US Vice President (1873-1875), Massachusetts senator. Firsthand-era account.
Proof level: Record. Authenticity: published book; check page images on HathiTrust or Internet Archive.
Rights: public domain.