Lost Cause mythology
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Ku Klux Klan collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1238
Scope and Contents
This collection contains material generated by the national organization, as well as local chapters, primarily the Realm of Georgia, of the Ku Klux Klan. Included are periodicals such as Kourier Magazine and The Imperial Knight-Hawk; financial, business, and membership papers; flyers and notices about Klan activities; and publications about ideology. Rhetoric throughout the collection is racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic,...
Dates:
1916-1998, undated
Rubie Austin Acker photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS468
Scope and Contents
This collection contains images collected by Rubie Austin Acker of Confederate memorial events in Georgia, including the Battle of Jonesboro Centennial Celebration in 1964 in Jonesboro, Georgia, as well as images of the Patrick R. Cleburne Confederate Memorial Cemetery. Also included are group portraits of United Daughters of the Confederacy, Frankie Lyle Chapter members. Of particular note are photographs of the 100th Confederate Memorial Day event at Oakland Cemetery in 1966 in Atlanta,...
Dates:
approximately 1960-1969, undated