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BLACK K K K
This documentation was provided by the late Linda Wattford, Ft. Mill S.C., U.D.C.
(United Daughters of the Confederacy) to Charles Parks in 1994.
Linda was a great inspiration to a student of Confederate history; always had interesting documentation to share as a Daughter of the Confederacy, and is surely missed.
The article is particularly interesting to me as the church described in the article is the church I attended with my Grand parents as a child. Henry's home is apparently the old white house located directly across the side street from the then Methodist Church on W. Main Street. The chuch has since burned down.
This article provides an excellent example of the difficulty in attmepting to judge a period of time in history compared to today's politically correct standards that are exploited by organizations such as the NAACP as to the way things are percieved to have been "I think thats the way it must have been back then and by God that's the way it was" attitude, as opposed to the more historically aspect of the way things actually were back then.
This is as true with the following article as it is with Black Confederate history.
A shame it is that with a month of Black history in public school systems, little if nothing is taught about African slavery that still exists today, Black slave importers, Black slave traders, Black slave masters, or Black Confederate history.
This is a great read, and in the spirit of Linda Wattford and the Daughters of the Confederacy, it is hoped that you will enjoy it as well.
Should you have documentation from this time period you feel is interesting, please share it with us so that we may share it with others.
Charles Parks, CSAHPS www.CSAHPS.com
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Rock Hill Herald
May 3, 1952 Centennial Issue
Henry Toole
Outstanding
R. H. Negro
By A. E. Hutchinson
Probably the most outstanding
Negro citizen of the early days of
Rock Hill was Henry Toole.
I say this not only for what he
was but for what he stood for.
Henry was born in Charleston and
came to Rock Hill about 1870. He
opened the first barber shop and
maintained it for half a century.
Leading elders of the town came
to Henry for their daily shave.
In Henry's shop, next door to
what is now J. J. Newberry's was
a large case where each customer
kept his own individual shaving
mug with name in gold letters on
the out side.
Henry was a Democrat. He voted
for Wade Hampton in 1876 and took
an active part in his campaign for
governor of the state. He is general-
ly believed to have been a mem-
ber of the Ku Klux Klan which help-
ed to rid the state of radical domi-
nation.
Because of his connection with
the K K K he was arrested by the
Federal Militia stationed in York
along with Capt. Iredell Jones.
They were put in the same cell in
the York jail. For his courageous
stand in political matters Henry
was given a just and fair consid-
eration in all political and finan-
cial dealings.
His white friends supported him
when he wanted to buy the old
Methodist Church on Main Street.
He moved the building and erect-
ed three more buildings along
Main Street where Parker Cloth-
ing Company is now located. His
residence was at the highest point
on West Main Street.
Evidence that Henry was from
an above average family is indi-
cated by the fact that his brother
Gray Toole, was a personal barber
to President Grover Cleveland.
He was the moving spirit in or-
ganizing a Negro Episcpal
Church on Black Street, a few
doors from Wilson Street.
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WHITE K K K
Back in the 1920's, 30's, 40's the Klan was a civic and very patriotic organization. As reported on the History Channel, millions of Klansmen marched on Washington DC at one time.
Founded after the war between North and South, the purpose of the Klan was to reinstate law and order in a war ravaged part of the country that had no law and order.
With Black militia troops stationed everywhere but stretched thin, there was little the people could do to defend themselves against murder, rape, beatings, and pillaging by Yankee carpet baggers that came South to exploit the people.
Eventually, a Klan leader was involved in a murder, that led to the exposure of political corruption, and the general population of the people in both the North and South walked away from the Klan. The Klan never again enjoyed the political strength it once had.
And for those that have never studied the reconstruction period of the South, it is important to note that the Klan was never a part of the Confederate States of America. It is a separate period of time in history not associtate with the other. And further, the official flag of the Klan is the American flag, not the Confederate flag. This is documented in old photos of the Klan seen with only one flag. The American flag.
THE KLAN DOWN HOME - SOUTH CAROLINA, PART 1
By Charles Parks
In 1997, a trucker, I's driving down a dusty ole back road one day in South Carolina way on out in the middle of no where about lunch time, and came to a store at a cross roads.
Inside, it was just a regular ole store, with a TV, and a black lady cashier.
While browsing for a snack, the TV news was covering the Confederate battle flag fight at the South Carolina State House.
I asked the cashier what she thought about the flag issue?
She said that flag didn't bother her at all. She'd seen that flag many times at Klan meetings.
First thing I thought was - now I'm gonna hear some real cock and bull !!!
So I asked her, where did you ever see the Klan ?
She told me her mom was white, 1/2 the family was white, the other half black.
When she was a little girl, she and her brothers and sisters ran around the table and out the back door playing while the white side of the family had Klan meetings in the kitchen.
She went on to tell me about back in the 70's the Klan burned a cross in their front yard.
Her Dad, told the Klan side of the family about it, and they had a talk with the Klan over in Chester that did the cross burning.
The Chester Klan then came back the next day to their house in broad open day light, with hoods off, appologized to her Dad, and took their burnt cross with them.
THE KLAN DOWN HOME - SOUTH CAROLINA, PART 2
by Charles Parks
My grandfather related this story to me in the early 70's when I was a young man.
One day we were talking about things, and somehow got on the subject of the Klan.
He told me the Klan got after white people too.
He said that there was a man over in Lancaster that had been cheating on his wife.
The Klan went to his home, told him that cheating on his wife was wrong, and that they
weren't going to have it. If they had to come and see him again, it wouldn't be a pleasant experience
for him.
The man continued to cheat on his wife.
The Klan returned to his house one day, and called him out on the porch.
They then took him to a tree, and tied him to it in the front yard.
The man was beaten with a bull whip.
I asked Pop if the man ever cheated on his wife again.
Pop said that if he did, he sure didn't tell anyone about it - and the Klan never bothered him again.
I asked if he knew any other Klan stories.
Pop said that was the only story of them that he ever knew about. Pop was in his mid 60's at this time.
THE KLAN DOWN HOME - SOUTH CAROLINA, PART 3
by Charles Parks
I was in the US Air Force back in the early 70's and stationed at Myrtle Beach AFB.
A medic, I had a Black buddy named Clyde Long that was from Rock Hill.
Clyde didn't have a car at the time, and caught a ride with me to Rock Hill on weekends.
One weekend we were driving back to Myrtle Beach and was around Lynchburg SC (of all names for a town)when we saw a bunch of pick up trucks and cars parked along side the highway, and a huge fire down in the woods.
I told Clyde it looked like a big cook out going on, and that maybe we could get something to
eat if we just mosied down there and just blended in.
Clyde was all for that, so we parked, grabbed a beer each and began walking into the wooded area.
Clyde and I were talking to each other and not really paying attention to what was going on down in the woods as we approached, but suddenly we looked up, and to our surprise - we'd both walked right into a Klan meeting !!! What we thought was a big cook out was a big cross burning !!!
We were about 30 feet behind about 25-30 Klansmen in full dress uniforms, and the moment we saw what was going on - WE PUT IT IN THE WIND.
We made it back to the car - and we were gone so fast it was like we'd never been there.
We talked about it and figured the reason we got away and didn't even get chased is because as we approached the area, all the men had their backs to us.
Another possibility was that well, maybe they were laughing too hard to chase us cause surely they have never seen two men moving that fast !!!
We figured they never saw us.
I'm from South Carolina, and that is the only time in my life - that I've ever seen Klansmen in a gathering.
And I'm not exactly a whipper snipper these days myself.
In the late 80's an article appeared in the Rock Hill Herald that there would be a Klan march downtown.
Curious, I got my wife and went to town that day in our pick up truck. We parked a distance away, just far enough to be out of the event, and to be able to hear what was said.
The big parade turned out to be two white men, and about 50 cops - cops everywhere / no white people.
These two men with a megaphone, talked politics for about 30 minutes. It would have been an ordinary citizens meeting talking about taxes and other normal concerns, only virtually everything discussed eventually came full circle with the "N" word. And that was about it !!!
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