- Collection:
- Stetson Kennedy Papers
- Title:
- American Confederate Army for White Christian Americans membership certificate, July 1954
- Date of Original:
- 1954-07
- Subject:
- Racism--Florida--Tallahassee
Hate groups--Florida--Tallahassee
Membership certificates
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) - People:
- Kennedy, Stetson
- Location:
- United States, Florida, Leon County, Tallahassee, 30.43826, -84.28073
- Medium:
- photographic prints
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Text in letter: "Commission American Confederate Army For White Christian Americans. Greetings: After thorough investigation we find that Mr. Kennedy is a good honest Christian American and is therefore honored with this Commission as Colonel in the American Confederate Army. Issued this... Day of July 1954, Tallahassee, Florida. Signed, Bill Hendrix." Descriptive text: Klan front organization led by Bill Hendrix, Florida Grand Dragon, 1950s. Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011), writer and civil rights activist, collected these photographs during the course of his career fighting for equality throughout the Southern United States.
- Local Identifier:
- L1986-30_04
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/SKennedy/id/13371
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Stetson Kennedy papers, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library
Cite as: L1986-30_04, Stetson Kennedy Papers, L1979-37, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta. - Contributing Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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