Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Organization
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
A. Philip Randolph, Civil Rights and Labor Leader, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1530
Overview
Papers of Asa Philip Randolph, a prominent civil rights and labor leader, who founded and edited The Messenger, an influential black radical labor newspaper of the 1920s and who organized and presided over the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the only independent, viable black trade union in the American labor movement. Much of the correspondence deals with raising subscriptions for The Messenger, gaining an International...
Dates:
1919-1937
Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0104
Overview
Personal and business papers of lawyer, U.S. Senator, circuit court judge, and first Governor of West Virginia, Arthur I. Boreman. See scope and content note for more details.
Dates:
1861-1895, undated
Arthur I. Boreman Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0639
Overview
Personal and business papers of Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896), lawyer, U.S. senator, circuit court judge, and first governor of West Virginia. The bulk of the collection consists of papers relating to his judgeship and to the law firm of Boreman and Bullocks, Parkersburg, WV. Series include correspondence, notes on cases tried before Judge Boreman, envelope cases of material regarding legal cases in which Boreman was involved, financial material, and political and judicial printed material....
Dates:
1830-1949
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959), Barns Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1604
Overview
Correspondence, business, and legal papers, and photographs of Thomas Barns (1750-1836) and his son John S. Barns, who operated a grist and saw mill at Polsleys Mill (now Fairmont). Papers deal with a river trip to Indiana, 1837; coal mining in 1839; the money question, 1838; land transactions, farming, and mercantile operations of the Barns family; Rosecrans in Middle Tennessee, 1863; and the poor economic conditions, 1878.
Dates:
1795-1908
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0258
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. marshal (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1606
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. Marshall (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
Harry C. Woodyard (1867-1929) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2458
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, legal, and financial, and miscellaneous papers of a businessman and politician from Roane County, West Virginia, who was elected to the state Senate in 1898 and to the U.S. Congress as a Republican for several terms: 1902-11, 1916-23, 1925-27. His early business activity was in wholesale groceries and the lumber industry. He later engaged in newspaper publishing and owned an estimated eighteen weekly papers. Woodyard's sons continued in their father's business after his...
Dates:
ca. 1910-1929
Jay Everett Long, Student, Letters Regarding Life At West Virginia University
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5219
Overview
Letters of West Virginia University student Jay Everett Long, class of 1926. Includes 29 letters from Long of Morgantown to A. David Stewart of Huntington, West Virginia. Subjects include social life at WVU, local baseball, events in Morgantown and Huntington, and local politics. The letter of 23 May 1926 references a KKK rally at WVU. Also includes three photographs (in folder 1).
Dates:
1921-1926
Ku Klux Klan, Monongalia County Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0386
Overview
Four manuscript sheets of notes, apparently extracted from a bound volume, containing the constitution, oaths, members' names, and other data on the Blacksville Klan.
Dates:
ca. 1868
Mullen Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1465
Overview
Correspondence, bills, receipts, and memoranda books of Gordon, Gordon, Jr., Jacob, George H., and Mrs. F.R. Mullen of Charleston. Subjects include farming operations; the management of a small store in Kanawha County, West Virginia; Barboursville College; and the State Free Silver Headquarters. The collection includes letterheads, business cards, and calendars of Charleston mercantile establishments, ca.1877-1914; and some Ku Klux Klan papers, 1928, of Dr. A.G. Mullen of Galesburg,...
Dates:
1841, 1865-1932
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- Politics and government. 5
- Elections 4
- Account books 3
- General stores 3
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 3
- Marion County (W. Va.) 3
- Mills and mill-work 3
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 3
- Railroads 3
- Unions. 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 2
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 2
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Election of 1924. 2
- Fairmont. 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Judges -- West Virginia 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Politicians 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Blacksville (W. Va.) 1
- Braxton County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Charleston. 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Country stores. 1
- Doddridge County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Genealogy 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Hardy County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Illinois 1
- Jefferson County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Labor organization. 1
- Land. 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- Mason County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Missouri 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgan County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Nicholas County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Pendleton County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Railroad workers. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- San Francisco (Calif.) 1
- Secession 1
- Secession - Virginia. 1
- Steamboats 1
- Taxation 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hostages 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Virginia - Claims vs. West Virginia. 1
- Voting - United States -- History -- 19th century 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- West Virginia - Governors. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- West Virginia - State Free Silver Headquarters. 1
- West Virginia University -- Students 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1 + ∧ less
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