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- Handwritten Note to Uril Franklin Hollis from the Ku Klux Klan, circa 1924 - Uril Franklin Hollis, a Black man, received this threatening note from the local KKK in Gattman, Mississippi, sometime in the early 1920s. Hollis heeded his white neighbors' warning and moved to Hamtramck, Michigan, where he found work in the auto industry. Life was precarious for Black Americans in the South, while jobs in northern cities offered hope of economic security and a seeming respite from threats and violence.
- circa 1924
- Collections - Artifact
Handwritten Note to Uril Franklin Hollis from the Ku Klux Klan, circa 1924
Uril Franklin Hollis, a Black man, received this threatening note from the local KKK in Gattman, Mississippi, sometime in the early 1920s. Hollis heeded his white neighbors' warning and moved to Hamtramck, Michigan, where he found work in the auto industry. Life was precarious for Black Americans in the South, while jobs in northern cities offered hope of economic security and a seeming respite from threats and violence.