The Klan in the Twenties
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The Klan in the Twenties
Presentation created by Robert MartinezPrimary Content Source: The American PageantImages as cited. thinksquad.net
A new Ku Klux Klan exploded in the early 1920s. Despite the familiar sheets and hoods, it more closely the anti-foreign
“nativist” movements of the 1850s than the anti-black nightriders of the 1860s.
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The Klan was anti-foreign, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jewish, anti-pacifist, anti-
Communist, anti-internationalist, anti-revolutionist, and anti-bootlegger, anti-gambling, anti-adultery, and anti-birth
control.
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The Klan was pro-Anglo-Saxon, pro-“native” American, and pro-protestant. In short, the
Klan ignited an extremist, ultra-conservative uprising against the diversity and modernity
that was shaping American culture in the Twenties.
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The new Klan spread with astonishing
speed, especially in the Midwest and the
“Bible Belt” South. At its peak in the mid-
1920s, it claimed about 5 million dues-paying members and
wielded political influence.
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The Klan capitalized on the typically America
love of on-the-edge adventure and in-
group camaraderie, to say nothing
about the adolescent passion
for secret ritual. en.wikipedia.org
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The “Knights of the Invisible Empire” included among their officials Imperial Wizards, Grand Goblins, King Kleagles,
and other horrendous “kreatures.”
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The most impressive displays were “konclaves” and huge flag-waving parades.
The chief warning was the blazing cross. The principal weapon was the bloodied lash,
supplemented by tar and feathers.
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Rallying songs were “The Fiery Cross on High,” “One Hundred Percent American,” and “The Ku Klux Klan and the Pope.” One brutal
slogan was “Kill the Kikes, Koons, and Katholics.”
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This reign of hooded horror, so repulsive to the best American ideals, collapsed suddenly in the late 1920s. Decent people withdrew from
the overindulgence of terrorism, while scandalous embezzling by Klan officials launched a congressional investigation.
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The bubble was punctured when the movement was exposed as a cruel scam based on a $10 initiation fee, $4 of which was kicked back to local organizers as an
incentive to recruit.
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The KKK was an alarming sign of the intolerance and prejudice plaguing
people anxious about the dizzying pace of social change in the 1920s.
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America needed no such
cowardly detractors,
whose white sheets
concealed sinister
purposes.
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