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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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- Philip Jenkins
- 1986
Mar 14, 2016 · It is Jenkins who states the size of the Klan – perhaps as low as 250,000 members in Pennsylvania at its 20th Century peak in 1926 – many more if local groups falsely lowered the number of members in order to pay less in dues to the state organization.
- Founding of The Ku Klux Klan
- Ku Klux Klan Violence in The South
- The Ku Klux Klan and The End of Reconstruction
- Revival of The Ku Klux Klan
- Great Depression Shrinks Klan
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...
Nov 27, 2021 · In “It Can’t Happen Here: Fascism and Right-Wing Extremism in Pennsylvania, 1933-1942,” historian Philip Jenkins writes, “In Pennsylvania the Legion was both active and militant, and in 1930 there were 73,000 members organized in 567 posts. In 1927 its role as self-appointed guardian of ‘Americanism.”
States with Largest Ku Klux Klan Membership: 1915–1944 State No. of Persons Initiated into State Klan Indiana 240,000 Ohio 195,000 Texas 190,000 Pennsylvania 150,000 Illinois 95,000 Oklahoma 95,000 New York 80,000 Michigan 70,000 Georgia 65,000 New Jersey 60,000 Florida 60,000 Occupational Distribution of Klansmen in Winchester, Illinois ...
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.
