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[bronze_ribbons]

My search skillz having failed me, I turn to the all-knowing readership: rumor has it that one of the co-founders of the KKK was a Unitarian. What was his name? (And, as long as I'm asking, what's your source? This detail is apparently a longstanding item of UU lore in some circles, and I'd like to verify whether it's actually true before I go repeating it.)

Update:
* Still the crud. It's apparently only bronchitis (went in for x-rays yesterday to confirm), but it's literally tiresome and I'm hoping this new batch of meds gets it gone.
* Also insomnia, but as a result, this Sunday's sermon is nearly finished. Go me!
* Claire Huchet Bishop's Twenty and Ten (1952). 76 pages, ages 8-12. Twenty French children help ten Jewish ones hide from the Nazis. Surprisingly fitting for this season.
* Asparagus on sale! Roasted the spears and made soup out of the snap-offs.
* Finished a gift I'd been meaning to pull together since July.
* Hundreds of pages to go before I sleep. Onwards...

Comments

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

I emailed my husband to ask him if we have any books at home on the history of the KKK. (We do have a lot on the history of racism and the civil rights movement, nearly all of them his.) He might know the answer to your question off the top of his head. He's been doing original research into the FOIA released Sovereignty Commission files for Mississippi.

I am dismayed that you are getting recurrent bronchitis. Do you also have asthma? I had a bunch of alternative medicine methods to reduce mine. But, if you already have the infection, antibiotics are the way to go. :( Thyme tea will stop a cough, though it tastes pretty vile--if you are desperate to just stop coughing already!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_saint_cecilia_/]

There is a chapter on the KKK in that popular book "Freakonomics."
I think the history was mentioned there, and (since the book itself may not be the greatest source) it has a bibliography.
Hope this helps!

[catrinella.livejournal.com]

Agree with everything schemingreader has said. I can send you the biblio for my dissertation, if you like - it's not Klan-focused, but I did a ton of research to disprove my original theories that the Klan was involved in the decline of Southern Catholic colleges....

The Wikipedia KKK page is actually quite good for its brevity. The Trelease book cited in the references is hugely based on primary docs, though a lot of the other sources are first-hands or aimed at a popular audience. David Chalmers's Hooded Americanism is where I'd probably go first, then the Trelease book.

[arionrhod.livejournal.com]

I don't have documentation at hand, but I believe the person you are looking for is General Nathan Bedford Forrest. I'll see if any of my history books have some references.