Claim: Monday Floyd, an elected member of the House of Representatives, was not spared by the Ku Klux Klan, he was threatened and shot while he was in his home in Madison, Georgia which made him flee to Atlanta.
Evidence: Monday Floyd was a carpenter and Republican State Representative, who was elected to two terms in the Georgia House of Representatives during the Reconstruction Era. In December 1870 he was threatened and shot, while in his home in Madison, Georgia, by the Ku Klux Klan. Three days later the Klan returned and Floyd fled to Atlanta.