Florida Broadside (2 results)

Printed broadside, 24 x 18 inches, employing several styles and sizes of type, the large head (2 1/4 inches) within an ornamental border featuring citrus fruit and pineapples. Jacksonville is the gateway, good school, fine churches, healthful climate, big crops." An immigration promotional offering more than a million acres to choose from, with the first offering being a 27,000 acre tract in Duval County. Servies 16187 (noting only a privately held copy). OCLC locates three copies: Yale, State Lib. of Florida, Univ. of North Florida. Very good. (#5038).…

Large double-folio partly-printed broadside, 22 ½ x 17 ½ inches, partly a form completed in large black letter manuscript, and signed by Robert Shelton as Imperial Wizard, and Lewis Perkins as Imperial Kligrapp (nation secretary), establishing Klavern 200 Florida in Lake Worth, Florida, February 10, 1976, all enclosed within a wide ornamental red border, Klan symbols in corners and at head, and with a large red central Klan device, showing important Klan dates and phrases, two fully robed and masked Klan members on rearing horses at the bottom, closing with the word "Honor," beribboned imperial seal affixed. OCLC locates six copies of Klan charters from the 1920s (one copy each), but apparently does not locate one from the United Klans of America, formed in the early 1960s when a number of organizations merged; we haven't found a sales record for a charter from either era, but are aware of the sale of a 1920s charter for Belhaven, N.C., some years ago. Old fold lines (rubbed, two inch separation at top); some storage wear and soil, a good example. Organized with the merger of several Klan organizations in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United Klans of America emerged in the early 1960s, with its main leader, Robert Shelton, quickly rising to become its Imperial Wizard. Over the next two years, it became well-known for its opposition to the Civil Rights movement and a number of its members were convicted of heinous crimes; including the lynching of Michael Donald in 1981 by UKA members, one of whom confessed to the murder and was sentenced to life in prison. Through the Southern Poverty Law Center, Donald's family brought a successful suit against the UKA, which was unable to pay the several million dollars awarded; through bankruptcy, Donald's mother was awarded the UKA property and sold it, the UKA ceasing operations in 1988. …