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The Ku Klux Klan and Freemasonry in 1920s America: Fighting Fraternities book cover

1st Edition

The Ku Klux Klan and Freemasonry in 1920s America Fighting Fraternities

By Miguel Hernandez Copyright 2019
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge
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The Second Ku Klux Klan’s success in the 1920s remains one of the order’s most enduring mysteries. Emerging first as a brotherhood dedicated to paying tribute to the original Southern organization of the Reconstruction period, the Second Invisible Empire developed into a mass movement with millions of members that influenced politics and culture throughout the early 1920s. This study explores... Read more

Introduction, Chapter 1 – Klanishness: Brotherhood in the Invisible Empire, Chapter 2 – Freemasonry’s Fighting Brother: Militancy, Fraternalism and the Ku Klux Klan, Chapter 3 – Kluxing America: The Use and Abuse of the Masonic Reputation, Chapter 4 – Hate At $10 a Package: Selling the Invisible Empire, Chapter 5 – Hooded Freemasons: Dual Membership and Conflict in Local Lodges, Chapter 6 – Dallas Klan No.66 and Anaheim Lodge No.207: A Case Study of Two Communities, Chapter 7 – Friend or Foe? Grand Masters’ Responses to the Ku Klux Klan, Chapter 8 – The Collapse of the Second K.K.K., Conclusion - An "Invisible" Empire?

Biography

Miguel Hernandez is Lecturer in Twentieth Century American History in the Department of History at the University of Exeter.

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