Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment - Primary Source Edition

Originally published in 1905, this text was written by John C. Lester and D.L. Wilson, both of whom were members of the original Ku Klux Klan during the Reconstruction era. The work was intended as an insider history of the organization's initial incarnation, aiming to provide a chronological account from its 1866 founding in Pulaski, Tennessee, through its dissolution in the early 1870s. The authors focused on the group's internal structure and purported objectives, framing the Klan as a reactionary social movement responding to the political upheavals of the post-Civil War South.

This specific volume is part of a 'Primary Source Edition' series, which utilizes print-on-demand technology to reproduce out-of-copyright historical texts for modern researchers and archival collections. The design follows a functional, utilitarian aesthetic common to these facsimile reprints, prioritizing the preservation of the original 1905 typeset and pagination. While the original work remains a significant, albeit biased, primary source for historians studying 19th-century domestic radicalism, these modern reprints are curated primarily for academic accessibility and archival completeness.