CONTENTS

[INTRODUCTION.]
BY WALTER L. FLEMING.
PAGE
13
KU KLUX KLAN.
BY J.C. LESTER AND D.L. WILSON.
[Chapter I. The Origin]47
[Chapter II. The Spread of the Klan]68
[Chapter III. The Transformation]83
[Chapter IV. The Decline]100
[Chapter V. Disbandment]125

APPENDICES.
[Appendix I. Prescript of Ku Klux Klan]133
[Appendix II. Revised and Amended Prescript of Ku Klux Klan]151
[Appendix III. Constitution of a Local Order]177
[Appendix IV. Ku Klux Orders, Warnings, and Oaths]187
[Index]199

ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Badge worn by high officials of the Klan. See outside cover.
[2. Some Klansmen]19
[3. General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Grand Wizard]28
[4. General John B. Gordon]33
[5. Room in which the Klan was organized]53
[6. Costumes worn in Mississippi and West Alabama]58
[7. Costumes worn in Tennessee and North Alabama]97
[8. Carpetbaggers Listening to a Ku Klux Report, (Cartoon)]113
[9. The Fate of the Carpetbagger and the Scalawag, (Cartoon)]192
[10. A Specimen Warning sent by the Klan]196

"When laws become lawless contrivances to defeat the ends of justice, it is not surprising that the people resort to lawless expedients for securing their rights."—S.S. Cox, in "Three Decades," p. 558.