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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Nashville City Council regarding Ku Klux Klan: Correspondence, ordinance, various items |
| Date | 1949-1963 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Report; Periodical; Legal Document |
| Description | Correspondence regarding ordinances passed by Southern cities such as Atlanta and Knoxville against the Klu Klux Klan. The correspondence details an effort to push the Nashville council into passing a similar ordinance. Herman Long writes to the NAACP and other civil rights organizations suggesting they take on the project. Letters confirming the success of this from the President of the City council, and letters from civil rights organizations congratulating Long on his part in it. Includes the Nashville city Anti-Cross burning ordinance, reports on Klu Klux Klan meetings, and a copy of an article by Stetson Kennedy titled 'I rode with the Klan'. |
| Series Description | Series 1: Administrative Records, 1943-1969 |
| Box Description | 1949-1967 |
| Theme/s | Organizations, Associations and Societies Legislation and Legal Cases Civil Rights Crime and Delinquency |
| Keywords | white supremacy, legislation, government, racial violence, racial tensions, civil rights, committee, crime, communism, racism, anti-Semitism, Jewish, community organization, segregation |
| Names | Edwards, Eldon; Green, Samuel; Hope, John II; Long, Herman Hodge; Shelton, Robert; West, Ben |
| Organizations | Democratic Party; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Fisk University; Ku Klux Klan; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); National States' Rights Party; University of Georgia; University of Tennessee; White Citizens' Council |
| Places | Atlanta, GA; Birmingham, AL; Chattanooga, TN; Chicago, IL; Detroit, MI; Eugene, OR; Greensboro, NC; Knoxville, TN; Miami, FL; Nashville, TN; New Orleans, LA; New York, NY; Orlando, FL; Savannah, GA; Tuscaloosa, AL; Washington, DC |
| Library | Amistad Research Center |
| Copyright | Physical rights retained and permission granted by the Amistad Research Center |