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The New Jersey Ku Klux Klan held a Fourth of July celebration from July 3–5, 1926, in Long Branch, New Jersey, that featured a "Miss 100% America" pageant. [14] In 1926, Alma White published Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty. She writes: "I believe in white supremacy." [15] In 1928, Alma White published Heroes of the Fiery Cross. She wrote: "The ...
Arthur Hornbui Bell (February 14, 1891 – March 1, 1973) was an attorney and the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey. [1]After attempting to collaborate with the pro-Nazi German American Bund, Bell and Imperial Kaliff Alton Milford Young were both kicked out of the Klan.
A Ku Klux Klan group was established in Fiji in 1874 by white American and British settlers wanting to enact White supremacy, although its operations were quickly put to an end by the British who, although not officially yet established as the major authority of Fiji, had played a leading role in establishing a new constitutional monarchy, the ...
John Kasper (born Frederick John Kasper, Jr.; October 21, 1929 – April 7, 1998) was an American politician, Ku Klux Klan member, and a segregationist who took a militant stand against racial integration during the civil rights movement. [1]
The United Klans of America Inc. (UKA), based in Alabama, is a Ku Klux Klan organization active in the United States.Led by Robert Shelton, the UKA peaked in membership in the late 1960s and 1970s, [1] and it was the most violent Klan organization of its time. [2]
In 1923 the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey provided funding for the school, allowing it to become "the second institution in the north avowedly run by the Ku Klux Klan to further its aims and principles." Alma White said that the Klan philosophy "will sweep through the intellectual student classes as through the masses of the people."
The Knights of the Flaming Circle was a militant organization founded in 1923 to fight the anti-Catholic Ku Klux Klan. [1] They were part of an opposition that included politicians, labor leaders and immigrant groups. [2] Membership was open to anyone who opposed the KKK and was "not a Protestant". [3]
This is a partial list of notable historical figures in U.S. national politics who were members of the Ku Klux Klan before taking office. Membership of the Klan is secret. Political opponents sometimes allege that a person was a member of the Klan, or was supported at the polls by Klan membe