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John C. Lester
Remembered chiefly as a co-author of an early book on the Ku Klux Klan, this Tennessee lawyer and former Confederate officer remains a figure tied to one of the darkest movements in American history.
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Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment
by John C. Lester, D. L. (Daniel Love) Wilson
About the author
John C. Lester was a lawyer in Pulaski, Tennessee, and a former Confederate officer. Contemporary and reference sources connect him to the earliest Pulaski group that became the first Ku Klux Klan, and later sources identify him as one of its original members.
He is best known in print as the co-author, with D. L. Wilson, of Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment, first published in 1884. That book has remained the main reason his name continues to appear in library catalogs, bookselling records, and historical references.
Because reliable biographical information about his broader life is limited in the sources available here, most accounts of him are brief and centered on that book and his connection to Pulaski after the Civil War.