Ku Klux Klan Hearings in the U.S. Congressional Serial Set: Other Resources

Government Documents

• Congressional Directory
  • 42nd cong., 1st sess., 1st ed., 1871
  • 42nd cong., 2nd sess., 1st ed., 1872
  • 42nd cong., 2nd sess., 2nd ed., 1872
  • 42nd cong., 3rd sess., 1st ed., 1872
  • 42nd cong., 3rd sess., 2nd ed., 1872
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, U.S. Congress
• Committees in the U.S. Congress, 1789-1946, vol. 4. Bowdoin Main Ref JK1029 .C64 2002 v.4
• The concurrent resolution establishing a joint committee "whose duty it shall be to inquire into the condition of the late insurrectionary States".
  • Concurrent resolution, as amended, The Congressional Globe, 42nd cong., 1st sess., 7 April 1871, Senate, p. 534, cols. 2-3. Via American Memory.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States. 42nd cong., 2nd sess., 1872. H.Rpt. 22, pt. 1, serial 1529, pp. 1-2. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b655882.
  • U.S. Congress. Senate. Mr. Scott, from the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, Submitted the Following Report. 42nd cong., 2nd sess., 1872. S.Rpt. 41, pt. 1, serial 1484, pp. 1-2, 589. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3985176.
• Munden, Kenneth W., and Henry Putney Beers. Guide to Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War. National Archives Publication. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service, 1962. Google Books.

Secondary Sources

• Alexander, Shawn Leigh, ed. Reconstruction Violence and the Ku Klux Klan Hearings. The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2015. Bowdoin Main Libr E668 .R424 2015

Selected scholarly materials that mention the Ku Klux Klan hearings.

Alexander, Shawn Leigh. Reconstruction Violence and the Ku Klux Klan Hearings. The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2015.

Alexander, Shawn Leigh. W.E.B. Du Bois: An American Intellectual and Activist. Library of African American Biography. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015.

Baker, Bruce E., and Brian Kelly. After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South. New Perspectives on the History of the South Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013.

Blum, Edward J., and John H. Matsui. War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.

Brandwein, Pamela. Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction. Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution Ser. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Colbert, Douglas L. "Challenging the Challenge: Thirteenth Amendment as a Prohibition against the Racial Use of Peremptory Challenges." Cornell Law Review 76, no. 1 (1990-1991): 1-128.

Cox Richardson, Heather. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Darity, William A., and A. Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Edwards, Laura F. "The Reconstruction of Rights: The Fourteenth Amendment and Popular Conceptions of Governance." Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 3 (November 2016): 310-328.

Foner, Eric. Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. Westminster: Knopf Doubleday, 2013.

Foner, Eric. Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy. Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History. 1 ed. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2007.

Foner, Eric. A Short History of Reconstruction. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1990.

Fortune, T. Thomas, and Daniel R. Weinfeld. After War Times: An African American Childhood in Reconstruction-Era Florida. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2014.

Fox, James W., Jr. "Citizenship, Poverty, and Federalism: 1787-1882." University of Pittsburgh Law Review 60, no. 2 (Winter 1999): 421-578.

Gillin, Kate Côté. Shrill Hurrahs: Women, Gender, and Racial Violence in South Carolina, 1865-1900. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014.

Gosse, Van, and David Waldstreicher. Revolutions and Reconstructions: Black Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

Halbrook, Stephen P. That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2013.

Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present. New York: Basic Books, 2009.

Nackenoff, Carol, and Julie Novkov. Statebuilding from the Margins: Between Reconstruction and the New Deal. American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law Ser. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Nelson, Scott Reynolds. Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence and Reconstruction. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Norrell, Robert J. The House I Live In: Race in the American Century. Cary: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Ortiz, Paul. Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920. American Crossroads Ser. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Ownby, Ted. The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013.

Parsons, Elaine Frantz. Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

Portraits in Oversight: Congress Investigates KKK Violence During Reconstruction, Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy, Wayne State Law School.

Samito, Christian G. Changes in Law and Society During the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Legal History Documentary Reader. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.

Sloan, John Z. "The Ku Klux Klan and the Alabama Election of 1872." Alabama Review 18, no. 2 (1965): 113-124.

Sullivan, Shannon, and Nancy Tuana. Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance. Ithaca: State University of New York Press, 2007.

Weinfeld, Daniel R. The Jackson County War: Reconstruction and Resistance in Post-Civil War Florida. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012.

Williams, Kidada E. They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I. New York: New York University Press, 2012.

Wright, Tiffany R., Ciarra N. Carr, and Jade W.P. Gasek. "Truth and Reconciliation: The Ku Klux Klan Hearings of 1871 and the Genesis of Section 1983." Dickinson Law Review 126, no. 3 (Spring 2022): 685-717.