2020-07 2 sessions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/23/2020
Imprint "CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN" 12pp. 6mo. being an "Address Delivered at Exalted Cyclops Meeting, Chattanooga, Tenn. October 28, 1924 by a Prominent Attorney and Member of Andrew Jackson Klan, No. 47, Realm of Tennessee." Very good condition. The second Klan started small in Georgia in 1915. It grew after 1920 and flourished nationwide in the early and mid-1920s, including urban areas of the Midwest and West. Taking inspiration from D. W. Griffith's 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation, which mythologized the founding of the first Klan, it employed marketing techniques and a popular fraternal organization structure. Rooted in local Protestant communities, it sought to maintain white supremacy, often took a pro-Prohibition stance, and it opposed Catholics and Jews, while also stressing its opposition to the alleged political power of the Pope and the Catholic Church. This second organization was funded by initiation fees and selling its members a standard white costume. The chapters did not have dues. It used K-words which were similar to those used by the first Klan, while adding cross burnings and mass parades to intimidate others. It rapidly declined in the latter half of the 1920s.
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