H. K. Edgerton

H. K. Edgerton is a black Southern heritage activist and former president of the NAACP's Asheville, North Carolina, branch. His most notable action to date was a march from North Carolina to Texas to build awareness of Southern culture and history.

In December of 1998, Edgerton was suspended from the NAACP after he approached Kirk Lyons, an attorney who had represented Ku Klux Klan leader Louis Beam in a 1988 conspiracy trial, to assist the Asheville NAACP in a lawsuit over housing policy. According to the NAACP, his suspension was due to non-compliance with the organization's rules when the Asheville chapter fell into debt. In 1999, he was voted out of office.

Edgerton is now the chairman of the board of directors of the Southern Legal Resource Center and an activist in the League of the South.

Quotes

* "When (Civil War Confederate ) General Beaureguard decided they needed another flag, he chose the cross of St. Andrew for these reasons. Most Southerners, in fact, did not want to do away with the stars and stripes because they didn't feel they had done anything wrong. They thought it was the north who was eradicating the Constitution." [http://www.dixieoutfitters.com/heritage/hke06.shtml]
* "I don’t see [the Ku Klux Klan] as terrorists. I see them as — I hate to use the word ‘vigilante,’ but vigilante sometimes ain’t as bad as you think. When your government fails you and fails to protect you, you have to turn somewhere." [http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2452]
*Slaves "were given a new pair of pants and a new pair of shoes every day, and he thinks this white man was cruel! [Black slaves] had the same medical facilities that the white man had. … You look at most of the slave pictures … they are not raggedy and torn. They lived better than most! … Most of them looked better than most of the white folks around and lived better than most of the free world!" [http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2452]

External links

* [http://www.southernheritage411.com/ Website]
* [http://www.slrc-csa.org/site/updates/1999/01-25-1999-udt.php Asheville NAACP Requests Assistance] from the Southern Legal Resource Center
* [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=252 Confederates in Black] from the Southern Poverty Law Center