Family papers, 1922,2002.

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Family papers, 1922,2002.

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Family papers, 1922-1927, 2002, include: love letters, postcards, notes, and telegrams sent between Kenneth Blass and Marie F. Kleiner during their courtship. The original materials, 1922-1927, transcripts of the materials, and press releases about the collection, 2002, are included. In his letterss from Sept. 29, 1924 through June 7, 1927, Kenneth writes Marie often about the Detroit and MIchigan Ku Klux Klan, the aims and views of the organiztaion, and his attending Klan events, dances, parades, and speeches. By 1926 he was apparently a member. He tried unsuccessfully to get her to agree with and vote for Klan ideas and ballot issues, and to join the women's Klan organizations.

7.5 cubic ft. (in 8 boxes)

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...

Blass family.

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Marie F. Kleiner (June 3, 1903-May 1976) attended the summer teachers' course at Central Michigan Normal School, now Central Michigan University, in 1921. She then taught in various one-room schoolhouses in Harrison (Mich.), 1921-1927. Kenneth Blass (May 31, 1897-April 1985) of Baldwin (Mich.), worked as a postal worker in Detroit (Mich.) during the 1920s, where he became a Mason and joined the Ku Klux Klan. The couple was married on June 20, 1927 and moved to Baldwin (Mich.). Together they had ...

Blass, Kenneth.

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Blass, Marie F. Kleiner.

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