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William Joseph Simmons (May 7, 1880 – May 18, 1945) was an American preacher and fraternal organizer who founded and led the second Ku Klux Klan from Thanksgiving evening 1915 until being ousted in 1922 by Hiram Wesley Evans.
William Joseph Simmons [1] (1880–1945) was the Imperial Wizard (national leader) of the second Ku Klux Klan between 1915 and 1922. Hiram Wesley Evans (1881–1966), part of a group that ousted William Joseph Simmons from the position of Imperial Wizard in November 1922. Evans was Imperial Wizard from 1922 to 1939, during which time the Klan's ...
The original Kloran was written by William J. Simmons, for his revived "Knights of the Ku Klux Klan", c. 1915. He drew heavily on his previous experiences with fraternalism: he had been a member of many different lodges and had sold memberships in the Woodmen of the World before deciding to revive the Klan (see Second Klan).
The second Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1915 by William Joseph Simmons at Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, with fifteen "charter members". [112] Its growth was based on a new anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, Prohibitionist and anti-Semitic agenda, which reflected contemporary social tensions, particularly recent immigration.
William A. Simmons (1840–1916), American government official; William J. Simmons (teacher) (1849–1890), American ex-slave and college president; William Simmons (politician) (1865–1956), Canadian politician; William Joseph Simmons (1880–1945), American founder of the second Ku Klux Klan; William Simmons (athlete) (1903–?), English athlete
Roy Elonzo Davis (April 24, 1890 – August 12, 1966) was an American preacher, white supremacist, and con artist who co-founded the second iteration of the Ku Klux Klan in 1915. Davis was Second Degree (second in command) of the KKK under William J. Simmons and later became National Imperial Wizard (leader) of the Original Knights of the Ku ...
RELATED: Ku Klux Klan through the years. Quigg said that he and other Klan members have raised more than $20,000 for the Clinton campaign and donated it anonymously.
Hiram Wesley Evans (September 26, 1881 – September 14, 1966) was an American dentist and political activist who served as the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, an American white supremacist group, from 1922 to his resignation in 1939.