Buffalo Ku Klux Klan papers, 1922-1977, bulk 1922-1925.

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Buffalo Ku Klux Klan papers, 1922-1977, bulk 1922-1925.

Includes a pamphlet entitled "Expose of Traitors" listing names and addresses of Buffalo-area Klan members, business directory, admittance ticket to Klan meeting, letters, a charter petition, court deposition, member lists, and typed reports from an unnamed police informant (probably Officer Obertean). Materials date from circa 1922 to 1925 with the exception of one Buffalo Evening News clipping from 1977 on the resurgence of the Klan.

0.3 linear feet (2 folders and 1 oversize folder)

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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...