Saving Society Through Politics: the Ku Klux Klan in Dallas, Texas in the 1920s
Description:
This study analyzes the rise of the 1920s Ku Klux Klan in Dallas, Texas, in the context of the national Klan. It looks at the circumstances and people behind the revival of the Klan in 1915. It chronicles the aggressive marketing program that brought the Klan to Dallas and shows how the Dallas Klavern then changed the course of the national Klan with its emphasis on politics. Specifically, this was done through the person of Hiram Wesley Evans, Dallas dentist and aspiring intellectual, who engi…
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Date:
December 1997
Creator:
Morris, Mark N. (Mark Noland)