Atlanta Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy history with a full page ad for the Ku Klux Klan

During the 1920s a United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) chapter in Virginia passed a resolution condemning the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) of the 1920s. The condemnation was that the members of the 1920s KKK weren't worthy of the name of the KKK unlike the ex-Confederates who made up the KKK of Reconstruction. It wasn't a repudiation of the Reconstruction Era KKK or the racism of the KKK, it just felt that the UDC chapter didn't think that the members of the 1920s KKK were not worthy of being KKK.

This resolution has been used by some to say that the UDC in general rejected the KKK. It means no such thing. The resolution wasn't adopted by the Virginia Division of the UDC nor the general UDC organization. It remained the resolution of just on chapter in Virginia in the UDC.

The Atlanta Chapter of the UDC was a very prominent chapter of the UDC being the chapter of a major metropolis in the South. They published a pamphlet, "History Atlanta Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy: 1897-1922," for their 25th anniversary. This was an important pamphlet for them.

In the pamphlet they had advertisements. One of those advertisements was a full page ad for the Ku Klux Klan. The Atlanta Chapter of the UDC didn't think the 1920s KKK was unworthy of being in a very important publication of theirs. This shows at least one very prominent chapter of the UDC hadn't rejected the 1920s KKK.

Not in the KKK ad that they are an organization for "native-born" white people. This is in keeping with the Anglo-Saxonist prejudice of the UDC and the KKK.