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- A current survey indicates the KKK had about 250,000 Pennsylvania members — plus perhaps twice that many sympathizers — in the 1922-1928 period of its strongest influence.
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The first chart represents the states with the highest recorded membership in the Klan during this time period. The approximate numbers are based on the estimates of former members, media reporters, and Klan documents.
Jul 22, 2020 · A current survey indicates the KKK had about 250,000 Pennsylvania members — plus perhaps twice that many sympathizers — in the 1922-1928 period of its strongest influence. Cross burnings, the organization’s symbol, occurred frequently all across the state.
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- Philip Jenkins
- 1986
Jun 11, 2018 · The records contain the names of leaders and members of the Klan throughout Pennsylvania. Today, these archives are available for research by the public. The Klan in the Lykens Valley had its heyday between 1923 and 1927 and thereafter declined in membership.
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A group including many former Confederate veterans founded the first branch of the Ku Klux Klan as a social club in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. The first two words of the organization’s name supposedly derived from the Greek word “kyklos,” meaning circle. In the summer of 1867, local branches of the Klan met in a general organizing convention and ...
From 1867 onward, Black participation in public life in the South became one of the most radical aspects of Reconstruction, as Black people won election to southern state governments and even to the U.S. Congress. For its part, the Ku Klux Klan dedicated itself to an underground campaign of violence against Republican leaders and voters (both Black...
Though Democratic leaders would later attribute Ku Klux Klan violence to poorer southern white people, the organization’s membership crossed class lines, from small farmers and laborers to planters, lawyers, merchants, physicians and ministers. In the regions where most Klan activity took place, local law enforcement officials either belonged to th...
In 1915, white Protestant nativists organized a revival of the Ku Klux Klan near Atlanta, Georgia, inspired by their romantic view of the Old South as well as Thomas Dixon’s 1905 book “The Clansman” and D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “Birth of a Nation.” This second generation of the Klan was not only anti-Black but also took a stand against Roman Catho...
The Great Depressionin the 1930s depleted the Klan’s membership ranks, and the organization temporarily disbanded in 1944. The civil rights movement of the 1960s saw a surge of local Klan activity across the South, including the bombings, beatings and shootings of Black and white activists. These actions, carried out in secret but apparently the wo...
Jan 9, 2023 · In this largely persuasive if occasionally disorganized account of the Klan’s growth and influence in western Pennsylvania during its heyday, 1922–1925, John Craig reinforces elements of recent Klan scholarship, notably in highlighting the broad base of its membership, while showing how in key respects the rise and fall of Pennsylvania’s ...
Feb 17, 2018 · John Craig's The Ku Klux Klan in Western Pennsylvania, 1921–1928 is an important contribution to the history of the 1920s Klan. Between 1921 and the group's collapse at mid-decade, as many as 200,000 Pennsylvanians in the twenty-five counties west of the Allegheny Mountains joined the resurgent Invisible Empire.
