Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment

Compiled by a former member and a collaborator, the account traces a postwar secret order from its local founding through rapid regional spread, internal organization, ritual costumes and prescripts, and a shift from disciplined enforcement to episodes of lawless violence. Chapters follow origin, expansion, transformation, decline, and formal disbandment, while an introductory essay supplies contextual critique. Appendices reproduce constitutions, revised prescripts, a sample local constitution, and specimen orders, warnings, and oaths, and the volume includes facsimile illustrations and documents that record the movement's structure, practices, and controversies.