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Annex Six
These items are not for sale. They are museum exhibits only.
(1) I know it's at.a
bad angle, but this photo is of a Klan painting, circa 1920's. The original image was used
as art work for posters promoting the 1915 silent film classic, The Birth Of a Nation.
Since then artists have made paintings of it, it appears on other types of posters used by
the KKK over the decades, it appears on Klan banners, and has even been used on modern day
Klan Christmas cards. See photo (2) below.
(2) 
(3)
The date for this painting is unknown. The artist is a little confused. The robes are
similar to the robes worn by the original KKK (1865 - 69). But, they have a woman of ill
repute on trial for loose morals. The original KKK did not engage in such activity. It was
concerned with getting rid of Carpetbaggers, Scalawags, renegade Negroes, restoring law
and order, and restoring the Rights taken away from all Southern Whites by the Radical
Republicans of the North. It was the revival KKK (1915 - 44) that engaged in enforcing
moral codes. In a case like the one depicted, the revival Klan would lecture the fallen
woman on proper moral behavior, most likely order her out of town or give her a whipping.
In the case of a whipping she would also be given a jar of ointment to rub on her back to
help it heal. The revival Klan closed down houses of prostitution all across the country
this way.
(4) This is a modern
Klan painting. The artist must have been the van Gough of the Klan. If you've ever seen
some of van Gough's paintings you know what I mean. Here we see a black robed Klansman and
a black fiery cross (of all things). Either the artist was on LSD or he has a real dislike
for K-Mart.
(5) This art
work dates from 1924, and depicts a Reconstruction Era Klansman. by artist, C.K. Berryman,
of Kentucky. He made the common mistake that the Klan of that period used the fiery cross,
which they did not. But, the 1915, movie, Birth of a Nation, showed the KKK using fiery
crosses and so the image was carried over. In 1924, the revived KKK was at its height and
they lit fiery crosses all over the nation, helping to make the myth seem as fact.
(6)
This unfinished painting was owned by Imperial Wizard, Ken Taylor, Indiana KKK.
(7)
This original painting has been copied by numerous artists over the decades.
Updated November 12, 2008