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Letter to I.E. Phillips from T.T. Wentworth Jr., October 16, 1927

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Date Issued:
1927-10-16
Summary:
Typed carbon copy on plain paper that is very dark from acid. Addressed to Rev. I. E. Phillips, dated October 16, 1927, unsigned. The letter is talking about the Viola Edwards, E. E. Tart, Dorothy Fredrickson case (names are not used in the letter). Tells Phillips that a Caucasian woman and her newborn baby both died in a hospital run by Mrs. Edwards, an African American woman and that Mrs. Edwards and Mr. Tart, a Caucasian, were charged with the deaths. Tart had been a member of the Klan three years prior. Hints that it is believed Tart was the father of the baby. Claims that the "Weak Protestant element aided and assisted by the Strong Catholic element" claimed that Tart was freed because of his previous Klan membership. Also mentions the "Alabama trouble" and that the Catholics and "so-called" Protestants are spreading propaganda to "kill the Klan." Local membership now down to 159 and most are "common laborers," that there are practically no business or professional men remaining in the local Klan. Wentworth has been in the Klan for about 7 years and is trying to save the local group and asks Phillips to come to Pensacola. See also 2016.035.030 and 0463-0471
Title: Letter to I.E. Phillips from T.T. Wentworth Jr., October 16, 1927.
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Name(s): Theodore Thomas Wentworth, Jr., Creator
I. E. Phillips, Recipient
Dorothy Fredrickson, Referenced
Type of Resource: still image
Genre: Correspondence, Letter
Date Created: 1927-10-16
Date Issued: 1927-10-16
Publisher: West Florida History Center, UWF Libraries, digitized from materials loaned by the UWF Historic Trust Resource Center
Place of Publication: Pensacola, Florida
Extent: 1 letter
Language(s): English
Summary: Typed carbon copy on plain paper that is very dark from acid. Addressed to Rev. I. E. Phillips, dated October 16, 1927, unsigned. The letter is talking about the Viola Edwards, E. E. Tart, Dorothy Fredrickson case (names are not used in the letter). Tells Phillips that a Caucasian woman and her newborn baby both died in a hospital run by Mrs. Edwards, an African American woman and that Mrs. Edwards and Mr. Tart, a Caucasian, were charged with the deaths. Tart had been a member of the Klan three years prior. Hints that it is believed Tart was the father of the baby. Claims that the "Weak Protestant element aided and assisted by the Strong Catholic element" claimed that Tart was freed because of his previous Klan membership. Also mentions the "Alabama trouble" and that the Catholics and "so-called" Protestants are spreading propaganda to "kill the Klan." Local membership now down to 159 and most are "common laborers," that there are practically no business or professional men remaining in the local Klan. Wentworth has been in the Klan for about 7 years and is trying to save the local group and asks Phillips to come to Pensacola. See also 2016.035.030 and 0463-0471
Identifier: uwf_ht_2016.035.0425 (IID)
Note(s): A Project of the Gulf Coast Digital History Project.
Subject(s): Ku Klux Klan
Theodore Thomas Wentworth, Jr.
Escambia Klan No. 57
Dorothy Fredrickson
Pensacola, Florida
1920s
1927
Alabama Trouble
Held by: University of West Florida Historic Trust Resource Center, Hilton Green Room
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/uwf/fd/uwf_ht_2016.035.0425
Use and Reproduction: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Host Institution: UWF

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