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Eyre Damer
1854–1922
An Alabama writer with a strong sense of place, he is now chiefly remembered for a Reconstruction-era book that reflects the politics and racial attitudes of its time. His surviving record is sparse, which gives his small body of published work an unusual archival interest.
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When the Ku Klux Rode
by Eyre Damer
About the author
Born in 1854 and dying in 1922, Eyre Damer was an American author associated with Alabama. Library and catalog records consistently identify him with those dates, and LibriVox notes that he was from Alabama.
He is best known for When the Ku Klux Rode (1912), a nonfiction work about the Reconstruction era. Modern library descriptions make clear that the book presents the Ku Klux Klan in a deeply partisan, white-supremacist frame, so it is usually approached today as a historical artifact as much as a narrative of the period.
The surviving public record on Damer appears limited. Archival listings such as the New York Public Library's collections show him as an active correspondent in the early 20th century, but a fuller biographical portrait is hard to confirm from readily available sources.