Monday Floyd

Monday Floyd was a carpenter and Assemblyman in the Georgia Legislature during the Reconstruction Era after the American Civil War and the emancipation of slaves in the American South. An African American, he reported receiving a note of threat from the Ku Klux Klan ordering him to leave town and promising that there would be no more "Negro" legislators in Georgia.[1]

Elected in 1868, he was among the 25 of 29 African American legislators in Georgia who were blocked from taking office. After federal intervention he was able to be seated after the 1870 election. In December 1870 he was threatened and shot at in his home in Madison, Georgia by the Ku Klux Klan. Three days later they returned and he fled to Atlanta.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Du Pre Lumpkin, K. (1992). The Making of a Southerner. University of Georgia Press. p. 83. ISBN 9780820313856. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  2. ↑ United States Congressional serial set. 1872. p. 250. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  3. ↑ Link, W.A. (2013). Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath. University of North Carolina Press. p. 91. ISBN 9781469607764. Retrieved 2018-03-18.


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