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Black and white photograph depicting large meeting of Ku Klux Klan members in a field at night beneath burning cross.

Photograph shows shrouded members of the Klan in the background with the candidates kneeling before them, an American flag, and a cross with three bright lights; one Klansman holds an American flag.

Masked Ku Klux Klan member riding in car, holding noose outside window during a parade through an African American neighborhood of Miami on the night before a primary election.

KKK Pamphlet cover
This pamphlet was by Colonel William Joseph Simmons, Imperial Wizard and Emperor of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Original pamphlet located in the MASC collections in Holland Library, Washington State…

KKK Nathan Bedford Forrest, Leader of the KKK.
Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877). . http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/Confederate_Generals.htm, accessed 11/30/15, picture in public domain.

Three Ku Klux Klan members arrested in Tishomingo County, Mississippi, September 1871, for the attempted murder of an entire family "History of the Ku Klux Klan - Preach the Cross". preachthecross.net. Accessed 11/30/15.

KKK Membership Pamphlet, mission and goals, statements of purpose.

USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama, 19 June 1864 Painting by Xanthus Smith, 1922, depicting Alabama sinking, at left, after her fight with the Kearsarge (seen at right). Courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York. Official U.S.…

"Jump Jim Crow" song sheet with lyrics of the song popularly performed by white comedians, including Thomas Dartmouth Rice.

This picture depicts one of the separate drinking water that enforces segregation between African Americans and Whites.

The Songbook showcases the early depiction of a minstrel show character, Jim Crow. It wasn't until the late 1800s that the expression "Jim Crow" was used to describe the laws and customs aimed at segregating society, restricting social contact and…

Reunion of members of both the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans in Gettysburg, 1913.

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Illustration of General Butler subduing a mob in New Orleans 1862. Earning him a name by Southerners as "Beast Butler".

An 1868 illustration evoking the difficulties faced by the Freedmen's Bureau, the agency responsible for transforming Southern society, in the face of white opposition, to accommodate freed slaves.

Francis Clalin, disguised as a man, served in the 44th Regiment, Missouri Artillery, Company I for 3 months and in the 13th Missouri Cavalry, Company A, for 19 months.

Farragut's fleet running by the Confederate batteries guarding the mouth of the Mississippi River. Painting by Thomas Sinclair. (Library of Congress)

The first national flag used by the Confederate States of America from March 4th, 1861 to May 26th, 1863. Nicknamed "the Stars and Bars".

After the war ended, the thousands of African American freedmen who fought for both the North or the South had trouble finding support for equal rights.

This photograph depicts an early KKK of 1870, Division 289 from Watertown, New York. At this point of the KKK existence, members did not always hide their identity.

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington. Shows 27 African Americans in two lines with rifles resting on the ground.

"We bivouac on the cold and hard-frozen ground, and when we walk about, the echo of our footsteps sound like the echo of a tombstone. The earth is crusted with snow, and the wind from the northwest is piercing our bones. We can see our ragged…

“Winter Encampments: The Long and Frozen Road”. Civil War Trust. Accessed 2 December 2015.

Illustration depicting the Compromise of 1877 giving the Republican Party the Presidency with the promise of Troop removal from the military occupied South.

Picture of Clara Barton from 1865