Box SC1850-1899.004

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a letter from Dan Price, a white Alabaman who taught freed African-American students, to his Congressman, Charles Wilson Pierce, about the vicious activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Sumter County, Alabama. Price describes - in horrific detail - the attacks by the Ku Klux Klan on 5th and 7th of December in 1868 against a doctor in Sumter County, Alabama. According to Price, the doctor's only 'crime' was that he was a 'radical' (i.e., a Unionist Republican). After...