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Two children wearing Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods stand on either side of Samuel Green, a Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon, at Stone Mountain, Georgia, on July 24, 1948. In some states, such as Alabama and California, KKK chapters had worked for political reform. In 1924, Klan members were elected to the city council in Anaheim, California.
He was founder and Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the mid-1970s; he re-titled his position as "National Director" and said that the KKK needed to "get out of the cow pasture and into hotel meeting rooms". He left the organization in 1980. He ran for president in the 1988 Democratic presidential primaries.
Members of the KKK in Anaheim in 1915. Extremists from the right and left have made Southern California their home. (Anaheim Public Library)
Founded in 1828, the Democratic Party is the oldest active voter-based political party in the world. The party has changed significantly during its nearly two centuries of existence. Once known as the party of the "common man", the early Democratic Party stood for individual rights and state sovereignty, and opposed banks and high tariffs.
The KKK candidates ran under the Democratic banner, Trafton wrote, and their opponents ran as Republicans. (That polarity, by the way, was reversed in Indiana after 1923.)
California: Member of the California State Assembly from the 39th district (1943–1947) ... Democratic Party; Ku Klux Klan; National Democratic Party; New Democrats;
Pages in category "Ku Klux Klan in California" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. K.
Between September 1923 and February 1924, Dan Moody led Williamson County’s prosecution against four Klan members — yet hardly anyone knows about it.