Collection, 1916-1974.

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Collection, 1916-1974.

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Collection of papers and photographic materials documenting the Mecosta County (Mich.) Ku Klux Klan, 1916-1974 and undated, mostly 1920-1939. Included are: organizational correspondence, membership cards, publications, forms, and photographs and a glass plate negative. The collection was created by Lewis D. Capen, who served as the Exalted Cyclops of the Mecosta Klan No. 28, 1926-1929. He then became Great Kaliff or Grand Titan, a leadership position over all the Klans of Ionia and Mecosta counties and the towns of Petoskey, East Jordan, Hart, Manistee, Portland, and Muskegon (Mich.).

.5 cubic ft. (in 2 boxes) : ill.

Clarke Historical Library

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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...

Ku Klux Klan (Mecosta County, Mich.)

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Capen lived in Millbrook (Mecosta County, Mich.) and served as Exalted Cyclops of the Mecosta Klan No. 28, 1926-1929, and Great Kaliff or Grand Titan, during the 1930s. From the description of Collection, 1916-1974. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 41953504 ...

Capen, Lewis D.

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