Walter Lynwood Fleming avec une auteure apologiste notoire du Ku Klux KlanSusan Lawrence Davis[5], a tenté, pour rendre acceptable le Klan, d'établir des liens entre le Klan et la franc-maçonnerie. En effet, d'après eux, Albert Pike[6], haut gradé de la franc-maçonnerie américaine, aurait occupé un rang élevé au sein du KKK (ce qui n'a jamais été démontré et même réfuté[7], assertion qui provoque toujours des polémiques[8]), cela pour montrer que le Klan était fidèle à l'esprit des Pères fondateurs de la Constitution des États-Unis qui étaient majoritairement francs-maçons. Son livre rédigé avec John C. Lester et Daniel Love Wilson [9]Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment est une œuvre de propagande visant à réhabiliter le Klan et les lois Jim Crow en donnant des excuses au pratiques terroristes du Klan et au lois ségrégationnistes des états du Sud comme des réponses aux diktats du gouvernement fédéral, une légitime défense des intérêts des Blancs.
"Documentary History of Reconstruction" Volume I (1906) and Volume II (1907).
Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial: 1865 to 1906 (reprinted 1966 with introduction by David Donald) 2 vols., xviii, 493 and xiv, 480 pp.
Fleming, Walter L. Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama 1905. the most detailed study; Dunning Schoolfull text online, 805 pp
"Immigration to the Southern States," in the Political Science Quarterly, XX (1905), 276-97. in JSTOR
"Blockade Running and Trade Through the Lines into Alabama, 1861-1865," South Atlantic Quarterly, IV (1905), 256-72.
"Reorganization of the Industrial System in Alabama after the Civil War," American Journal of Sociology, X (1905), 473-99. in JSTOR
"The Freedmen's Savings Bank," Yale Review, XV (1906), 40-67, 134-46.
"'Pap' Singleton, The Moses of the Colored Exodus," American Journal of Sociology, XV (1910), 61-82 in JSTOR
General W.T. Sherman as college president; a collection of letters, documents, and other material, chiefly from private sources, relating to the life and activities of General William Tecumseh Sherman, to the early years of Louisiana State University (1912)
A Ku Klux Document in the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, (1915), 1:575-78. in JSTOR
Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment, avec John C. Lester et Daniel Love Wilson, Neale Publishing, 1905
The Sequel of Appomattox: A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States (Yale University Press: Chronicles of America series; vol. 32) (1919) online version
The Freedmen's Savings Bank: A Chapter in the Economic History of the Negro Race, x, 170 pp. (University of North Carolina Press: 1927; reprinted by Negro Universities Press, 1970)
Louisiana State University, 1860-1896 (1936), 499pp
The Religious and Hospitable Rite of Feet Washing (Sewanee, TN, University Press, 1908). 15 pp. Reprinted from The Sewanee Review, XVI (January, 1908), 1-13.
Bibliographie
William C. Binkley. "The Contribution of Walter Lynwood Fleming to Southern Scholarship," The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 5, No. 2 (May, 1939), p. 143–154in JSTOR
John Hope Franklin. Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938-1988(Louisiana State University Press: 1989) p. 65, 411.(from essay first published in The Southerner as American, ed. Charles G. Sellers (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960).
Fletcher M. Green. "Walter Lynwood Fleming: Historian of Reconstruction," The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 2, No. 4. (Nov., 1936), p. 497–521. in JSTOR
↑(en) Elaine Frantz Parsons, Review of Smith, John David; Lowery, J. Vincent, eds., The Dunning School: Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction, H-SHGAPE, H-Review, (lire en ligne)
↑(en-US) Jenna Portnoy, « A homeless Confederate? Albert Pike’s complicated legacy leaves statue in limbo », The Washington Post, (lire en ligne)
↑(en-US) John C. Lester , Daniel Love Wilson , Walter Lynwood Fleming, Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment, Neale publishing company, , 223 p. (lire en ligne)