Civil War and Reconstruction Documents:
Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
Stone Mountain: Carving Fact from Fiction | Atlanta History Center
The Klan itself played a large role in this first effort to create the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain. Inspired by <em>The Birth of a Nation</em>, Alabama native William J. Simmons held a ceremony atop Stone Mountain in 1915 to announce the re-founding of the Ku Klux Klan.