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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 was born May 6, 1880 in Harpersville, Shelby, Alabama, United States. He was a son of Calvin Henry Simmons and Lavonia Davis. An American preacher and fraternal organizer who founded and led the second Ku Klux Klan.
When William Joseph Simmons was born on 6 May 1880, in Harpersville, Shelby, Alabama, United States, his father, Dr. Calvin Henry Simmons, was 43 and his mother, Lavonia Elizabeth Davis, was 33. He married Mary Elizabeth Shine on 27 April 1904, in Covington, Alabama, United States.
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Simmons was born in Alabama in 1880, the son of a Confederate soldier, physician, and alleged officer in the original Ku Klux Klan named Calvin Henry Simmons. His family, while at times financially unstable, was able to afford to domestically employ at least two Black laborers.
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It was approaching midnight on Oct. 16, 1915, when Methodist preacher William Joseph Simmons and at least 15 other men climbed Stone Mountain in Georgia. They built an altar, set fire to a...
William Joseph Simmons (born May 6, 1880 in Harpersville; died May 18, 1945 in Atlanta, Georgia) was the founder of the second Ku Klux Klan and its Imperial Wizard from 1915 to 1922. Simmons was the son of Calvin Henry and Lavonia David Simmons of Harpersville.
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