Searchlight

HISTORY

Newspaper

• The Searchlight was the official organ for the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia, a white supremacist and anti-Catholic organization. 

• Became the The National kourier in 1924 and ceased publication later that decade. 

• Chronicling America Record Notes: "Endorsed as official organ Junior Order United American Mechanics in convention, Savannah, Ga., Aug. 11, '21," <Jan. 7, 1922>-Feb. 10, 1923; "Official organ: Knights of the Ku Klux Klan; The Kamelia, the woman's organization," Apr. 7, 1923- ; "Official organ Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, realms of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, "--Nov. 15, 1924. "Motto: Free speech, free press, white supremacy, "--Publisher's statement, <Nov. 11, 1922-> Also on available on microfilm: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Libraries; Auburn, Ala. : Microfilmed by Dept. of Archives. Description based on: Vol. 1, no. 46 (Sept. 10, 1921).

City

• County seat of Fulton County

• New Georgia Encyclopedia entry

County

• New Georgia Encyclopedia entry 

Other

• "Ku Klux Klan in the Twentieth Century"

• "Segregation"

Superior Court Districts

• Coweta Circuit Dec. 20, 1869

• Atlanta Circuit, 1869-

Population - Census

• 1860: 14,427

• 1870: 33,446

• 1880: 49,137

• 1890: 84,665

• 1900: 117,363

• 1910: 177,733

• 1920: 232,606

• 1930: 318,587

• 1940: 392,886

• 1950: 473,572

• 1960: 556,326

• 1970: 607,210

ALREADY DIGITIZED BY DLG

• No issues of the Searchlight have been digitized by DLG.

• List of other digitized Atlanta titles

FILM HOLDINGS (1 Reel)

• Sept 1921 - Aug 1923