[POLITICS] [VIRGINIANA] KKK PROPOGANDA

South Hill, Virginia, 1968. 4 Ku Klux Klan broadsides. Two contain a P.O. Box address for the United Klans of America, in South Hill, Virginia. One is a fairly innocuous plea for people to vote, specifically against President Lyndon B. Johnson. This was likely in response to his support of the Civil Rights movement and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, dating the broadside to the following election in 1968. The second pairs an image of Abraham Lincoln with three of his quotes to support a list of 40 reasons for racial segregation. The third is a detailed version of Klan history which conflates their founding to Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty in 1768. It describes the through-line between this origin story and three successive “re-activations” of the KKK to a Den of the Invisible Empire and their secret archives. The fourth broadside contains extremely offensive illustrations and text regarding the dangers of racial desegregation. Declaring that segregation “made America great”~~This propaganda generated by the KKK in southern Virginia in the late 1960s attempts to counter their representation as a disorganized and ineffective organization.~.