Current Search: 1923 (x)
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Great Titan Commission for Lawrence Curtiss Phillips.
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Commission of Lawrence Curtiss Phillips, of Escambia Klan No. 57, Florida, to Great Titan, dated Nov. 21, 1923. Signed by : H. W. Evans, Imperial Wizard, and S. H. Ramsey, Imperial Kligrapp. Document embossed with seals of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Date Issued
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November 21, 1923
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Identifier
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uwf_ht_w.83.80.0848
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Ku Klux Klan Reply to Pensacola News, January 3, 1923.
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Author
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Pensacola Klan, No. 59, Pensacola News Editor
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Abstract/Description
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4-page pamphlet, tan with black print, "Ku Klux Klan Reply to Pensacola News. This pamphlet states it is in answer to an article published in the Pensacola News on December 3, 1922, and that the Pensacola News acknowledged receipt but did not print. This pamphlet states the Pensacola News article accused the Klan of being "sneak thieves, cowards, and paid assassins"; informs the Klan they are not welcome in Pensacola and should "slip out of this section as quietly as they entered." The reply...
Show more4-page pamphlet, tan with black print, "Ku Klux Klan Reply to Pensacola News. This pamphlet states it is in answer to an article published in the Pensacola News on December 3, 1922, and that the Pensacola News acknowledged receipt but did not print. This pamphlet states the Pensacola News article accused the Klan of being "sneak thieves, cowards, and paid assassins"; informs the Klan they are not welcome in Pensacola and should "slip out of this section as quietly as they entered." The reply accuses that "Lucky" Balduin was beaten by some of the people the Pensacola News held in esteem and then bragged about this the next day. The Klan also states, "You gentlemen of the News, may be fully qualified to say that we are 'Sneak thieves" and know whereof you speak; for we are sure that there are no better judges of sneak thieves than yourselves who are using the livery of Christianity to serve the vilest interests that invest this city and county and making a mockery of law and decency!" Accuses the Pensacola News of blackmailing someone for $500. to prevent an article from being printed, accuse Judge Shepherd of being sympathetic to "bootleggers and white slave artists."
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Date Issued
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January 3, 1923
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Identifier
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uwf_ht_2016.035.0445.a-d
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Set of related objects
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T.T. Wentworth, Jr. Membership Card for Florida Klan 57, expired June 30, 1923.
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Abstract/Description
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Membership card for Florida Klan 57, Pensacola, Florida, for T.T. Wentworth, Jr., expired June 30, 1923.
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Date Issued
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Before June 30, 1923
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uwf_ht_2016.035.0345
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Image (JPEG)