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Ku Klux Klan recruitment of members is the responsibility of 'Kleagles', as defined by "Ku Klux Klan: An Encyclopedia". They are organizers or recruiters, "appointed by an imperial wizard or his imperial representative to 'sex' the KKK among non-members". [1] These members received a portion of each new member's invitation fee. [1]
Three Ku Klux Klan members at a 1922 parade In this 1926 cartoon, the Ku Klux Klan chases the Catholic Church, personified by St. Patrick, from the shores of America. Among the "snakes" are various supposed negative attributes of the Church, including superstition, the union of church and state, control of public schools, and intolerance.
While one source claims Warren G. Harding, a Republican, was a Ku Klux Klan member while President, that claim is based on a third-hand account of a second-hand recollection in 1985 of a deathbed statement made sometime in the late 1940s concerning an incident in the early 1920s. Independent investigations have turned up many contradictions and ...
– In 1924 America experienced the zenith of KKK membership. Roughly Approximately 7 million of 114 million U.S. citizens residents (1 out of every 100), that is 6 out of every 100 Americans were ...
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a report on Thursday outlining the activity of the Ku Klux Klan members across the U.S.. According to the report, the Ku Klux Klan movement in the United ...
A Kleagle is an officer of the Ku Klux Klan whose main role is to recruit new members [1] [2] and must maintain the three guiding principles: "recruit, maintain control, and safeguard." King Kleagles are appointed as leaders of a region and have authority to manage members and official affairs of that region's members. In the 2000s the role was ...
Roughly 200 members of the Original Knights of Louisiana also joined the White Knights. Within a year, their membership was up to around six thousand, and they had Klaverns (local branches of the Ku Klux Klan) in over half of the counties in Mississippi. By 1967, the number of active members had declined to around four hundred. [4]
A bronze plaque at West Point, the United States Military Academy, shows a hooded figure and the words “Ku Klux Klan” underneath, according to a congressional commission’s report.