History:

The Original Knights of Louisiana, an independent klan organization, established a klavern (chapter) in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, around October 1962. The Natchez klavern split from the Original Knights of Louisiana and assumed the name of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi in February 1964. The organization elected Samuel Holloway Bowers as imperial wizard in April 1964, and he served for five years. Throughout the 1960s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation monitored the activities of the klavern. In October 1967, the United States government won the convictions of Bowers and six other individuals for the 1964 murders of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner near Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Mississippi. After more than two years of appeals, Bowers and the others were sent to prison in 1970.

 

Scope and Content Note:

This collection scope and content note to be written.

 

Series Identification:

Series 1: Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. XXXX. XX folders.

Series 2: White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi. XXXX. XX folders.

Series 3: Propaganda. XXXX. XX folders.

Series 4: United Klans of America, Inc. Publications. XXXX. XX folders.

Series 5: Montgomery Junior Chamber of Commerce Publication. February 15, 1964. 1 folder.

Series 6: Ledger Book. XXXX. XX folders.

Series 7: Composition Book. XXXX. XX folders.

Series 8: Spiral Notebook. XXXX. XX folders.

Series 9: Miscellaneous. XXXX. XX folders.

Series 10: Mississippi Constitutional Council. XXXX. XX folders.

Series 11: Charters. XXXX. XX folders.