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The Ku Klux Klan in Southern Illinois operated between 1867 and 1875 in seven counties—Franklin, Williamson, Jackson, Saline, Johnson, Union, and Pope. The "worst Klan years" were in 1874 and 1875. [1] Garb and weapons of the Ku-Klux Klan in Southern Illinois, as posed for Joseph A. Dacus of the Missouri Republican, in August 1875
Plainfield is a village in Will and Kendall counties, Illinois, United States. The population was 44,762 at the 2020 census . The village includes land in Will County's Plainfield and Wheatland townships, as well as Na-Au-Say and Oswego townships in Kendall County.
In December that year, Levi Arnold bought the land directly north of Ingersoll's and began to subdivide it; this area would later become the historic district. The construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal in the 1840s brought new residents to Plainfield, as the canal headquarters was only 6 miles (9.7 km) east in Lockport. Lockport Road ...
Williamson County is a county in Southern Illinois. At the 2020 census, it had a population of 67,153. [1] The largest city and county seat is Marion. [2] Williamson County is included in the Carbondale-Marion, IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. This area of Southern Illinois is known locally as "Little Egypt". [citation needed]
KKK fails Roy Patterson, of the state of Ohio, has an organizational meeting of the Ku-Klux Klan in the Martin Building at 115 Lower Genesee Street in Utica, and says he is disappointed in the low ...
The Ku Klux Klan (/ ˌ k uː k l ʌ k s ˈ k l æ n, ˌ k j uː-/), [e] commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the devastated South. Various historians have characterized the Klan as America's first ...
In 1926, Males admitted in front of the U.S. Senate that he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan overran Evansville and Indiana in the 1920s. That same year, Ed Jackson was elected governor.
Residents of Plainfield Fort Beggs was an impromptu fort used one week in May during the 1832 Black Hawk War . [ 1 ] Word about Indian attacks and massacres from the frontier led the residents of Plainfield, Illinois to convert the house of Rev. Stephen R. Beggs (1801–1895) [ 2 ] into a makeshift fort. [ 3 ]