Project Gutenberg 2011-03-15 Public domain in the USA. 62 Anonymous Anonyme Anonymous, Anonymous 12008003 The Nation's Peril. Twelve Years' Experience in the South. Then and Now. The Ku Klux Klan, a Complete Exposition of the Order: Its Purpose, Plans, Operations, Social and Political Significance; The Nation's Salvation. Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) "The Nation's Peril" by Anonymous is an exposé on the Ku Klux Klan, written in the late 19th century. This work provides a detailed account of the Klan's origins, operations, and the social terror it inflicted upon both black and white citizens in the post-Civil War South. The text offers harrowing narratives of violence and oppression against individuals who opposed the Klan’s ideologies, and it is framed as a call to understand the urgent issues of racial violence and civil rights during Reconstruction. The opening of "The Nation's Peril" sets the stage for an exploration of the brutal reality faced by many during this tumultuous period. It introduces the plight of individuals such as Edward Thompson, a black man murdered for his Republican beliefs, and the Furguson family, who suffered horrific violence for their advocacy of civil rights. The text emphasizes the sinister and organized nature of the Klan's campaigns of intimidation and violence, illustrating not only the physical assaults but also the psychological terror that reduced entire communities to fear. Through vivid accounts, the narrative highlights a society grappling with the consequences of war, shifting power dynamics, and the struggle for identity and rights in a deeply divided nation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Ku Klux Klan (19th century) Campaign literature, 1872 -- Republican E660 Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: History - American Browsing: Politics 294424 294429 2024-09-15T06:14:10.426763 2023-09-15T11:46:36.217253 text/html text/html 296900 2021-01-07T15:36:52 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 105887 2021-01-07T15:36:52 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 155482 2024-09-15T06:14:16.091747 application/epub+zip 158459 2024-09-15T06:14:11.882848 application/epub+zip 158460 2024-09-15T06:14:10.981759 application/epub+zip 312278 2024-09-15T06:14:19.223741 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 290200 2024-09-15T06:14:15.481803 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 226409 2022-09-16T09:51:29.964506 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 270911 270718 2024-09-15T06:14:09.905778 2023-09-15T11:46:35.739238 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 270815 2021-01-07T15:36:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 100700 2021-01-07T15:36:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 270807 2021-01-07T15:36:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 100682 2021-01-07T15:36:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20789 2024-09-15T06:14:19.362707 application/rdf+xml 12886 2024-09-15T06:14:11.378791 image/jpeg 3503 2024-09-15T06:14:11.205753 image/jpeg 150212 2024-09-15T06:14:10.452769 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog More titles under Unknown en.wikipedia