Ku Klux Klan Collection, 1920-1968

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Ku Klux Klan Collection, 1920-1968

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Twentieth-century secret fraternal group held to confine its membership to American-born white Protestant Christians. Collection includes a broad range of Ku Klux Klan pamphlets, flyers, and other ephemera regarding Klan membership, Anglo-American values, protests against African Americans, Communists, or non-Protestant people, and promotional Klan events. Early material highlights activities of the Women of the Klan in Pennsylvania during the 1920s, including their charity work and fundraising for the Klan Haven, an orphanage. This material also includes a large panoramic photograph of an early twentieth century Klan reunion at Gettysburg. Later materials from the 1960s are largely from Mississippi, Georgia, and North Carolina, and include texts on Klan history, segregation, school integration, Communism, Catholicism, and Judaism.

2.0 Linear Feet; 750 Items

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David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6359801

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Ku Klux Klan 1915-....

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The Ku Klux Klan was formally incorporated under the laws of the state of Georgia on Dec. 4, 1915. The incorporated organization is a continuance of the earlier post Civil War Reconstruction Era unincorporated Ku Klux Klan and of the Knights of the White Camellia. Women of the Ku Klux Klan was incorporated at a late date as a separate entity. The stated purpose of the KKK was to promote an all White, Protestant United States, excluding all other races and religions. From the descript...