The United Daughters of the Confederacy Paving the Way for a Klan Resergence in Parker County Texas

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THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY PAVING THE WAY FOR A KLAN RESERGENCE IN PARKER COUNTY TEXAS – Ed Sebesta 8/6/2020

Mrs. S.E.F. Rose, (Laura Martin), became Historian General of the UDC on the basis of her pro-KKK writing which eventually became the above book unanimously endorsed by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1913 and the Sons of Confederate Veteran in 1914 at their national conventions. It was published in 1914.

THE BACK STORY/CONTEXT The United Daughters of the Confederacy were the leaders in promoting the idea that the Ku Klux Klan of Reconstruction was the great work of the ex-Confederate soldier prior to the 1920s when there was there was a new Klan movement. S.E.F. Rose was so highly thought of for her book on the Klan that at the Nov. 1916 UDC national convention in Dallas, Texas she was elected Historian General of the UDC.1 However, in the Confederate Veteran, April 1917, page 331, there is an obituary for her, listing as one of her accomplishments her KKK book. Her replacement is 1

Confederate Veteran, Vol. 25, No. 2, Feb, 1917, page 90.


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