Julius H. Brooks was born in North Carolina in June 1853. Brooks was a carpenter who was active in labor unions and various Democratic clubs. He served as vice president of the Asheville White Supremacy Club in 1900. At the founding meeting in June of that year, he addressed the gathered members with a speech on "the necessity of such a club," arguing that "all white men who believed in white men ruling should unite." He died in Knox County, Kentucky on August 24, 1930.