Word: kluxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dealing with a man who had embodied in his person most of the political power of Indiana, and who was then serving a life sentence in Michigan City Prison for the rape and murder of a girl. He was dealing with D. C. Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana...
...custom of the Ku Klux Klan in recent years to make an annual splurge in Washington, D. C., so that mere laymen can gaze on the marching "brothers." This festival on Pennsylvania Avenue has come to be a barometer by which the relative annual potency of the K. K. K. may be judged. In the eyes of "Mr. Average Citizen," who thinks of crowds in terms of the several 100,000 Manhattanites who welcomed Gertrude Ederle and who fought to see the corpse of Rudolph Valentino, the K. K. K. performances of the last two years in Washington have been...
...several hundred thousand "brothers" will get Justice, find Pride. Perhaps he was disillusioned last week on looking into the three new supplementary volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, wherein able Arthur B. Darling, one of the rising young assistant professors in history at Yale, disposes of the modern Ku Klux Klan in a cool, curt sketch...
...Thanksgiving night in 1915 William Joseph Simmons, preacher, traveling salesman and experienced promoter of fraternal orders, gathered some friends on Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., before a 'fiery cross' and administered the oath of the 'Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.' A state charter gave corporate rights to his organization. As Imperial Wizard, Simmons could hold office for life and have final authority unless opposed by two-thirds of the Imperial Kloncilium, council of supreme officers and delegates from other states. . . . Simmons met financial difficulties. The order would have languished had not new impetus...
...saying ambiguously "a challenge issued by Jim is not the acceptance of a challenge by Miriam." True, able politicians like onetime Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey considered the campaign closed, refused to have anything more to do with the Fergusons, and Texans generally were sated with Ku Klux Klan claptrap. What difference? Jim made a speech...