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  • Description is exactly "(16) A Thursday, January 4, 1906 article from the Tuscumbia North Alabamian of Thursday setting out a brief history of the Klan in Alabama, which noted that Tuscumbia lawyer, newspaper editor, US Marshal and father of Helen Keller the late Capt. Arthur H. Keller “was the first man in Alabama to take the obligations of the Klan and several other gentlemen of Tuscumbia were taken into the organization at the same time.” The article noted that Capt. WD Stratton of Birmingham, on Confederate General Nathan B. Forrest’s staff during the Civil War, was the "official organizer" of the Klan "and as such he initiated the first Ku Klux in this state.""

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This is a collection of articles related to the original Ku Klux Klan that formed just after the Civil War.

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in late May or June of 1866 by six bored ex-Confederates in Pulaski, Tennessee: J. Calvin Jones; Frank…
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