Author: Michael E. BrooksPublisher:
ISBN: 9781626193345
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Ku Klux Klan in Wood County, Ohio"--
The Ku Klux Klan in Wood County, Ohio
Author: Michael E. BrooksPublisher: History Press Library Editions
ISBN: 9781540222947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Ku Klux Klan emerged in Wood County, Ohio, in late 1922, and at its peak, the white supremacist group numbered nearly 1,400 members in the county. Klan members occupied many municipal and county-elected positions, and nearly 40 percent of the Protestant ministers of Wood County joined the group in the 1920s. The Klan engaged in cross burnings, public marches and vigilante activities here during the 1920s and 1930s. Join author Michael Brooks as he examines the unsettling history of the KKK in Wood County.
Steel Valley Klan
Author: William D. JenkinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781612777962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Jenkins argues that the Klan drew from all social strats in Youngstown, Ohio, in the 1920s, contrary to previous theories that predominately lower middle-class WASPs joined the Klan because of economic competitions with immigrants. Threatened by immigrant movement into their neighborhoods, these members supposedly represented a fringe element with few accoplishments and little hope of advancement. Jenkins suggests instead that tmemebers admired the Klan commitment to a conservative protestant moral code. Besieged, they believed, by an influx of Catholic and Jewish immigrants who did not accept blue laws and prohibition, members of the pieststic churches flocked to Klan meetings as an indication of their support for reform. This groundwell peaked in 1923 when the Klan gained political control of major cities in the South and Midwest. Newly enfranchised women who supported a politics of moralism played a major role in assisting Klan growth and making Ohio one of the more successful Klan realms in the North. The decline of the Klan was almost as rapid. Revelations regarding sexual escapades of leaders and suspicions regarding irregularities in Klan financing led memebers to question the Klan commitment to moral reform. Ethnic oppostition also contributed to Klan decline. Irish citizens stole and published the Klan membership list, while Italians in Niles, Ohio, violently crushed efforts of the Klan to parade in that city. Jenkins concludes that the Steel Valley Klan represented a posturing between bultures mixed together too rapidly by the process of industrialization.
The Ku Klux Klan in Trumbull County, Ohio, 1923-1925
Author: Paul E. ZimmermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trumbull County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Akron, Ohio Ku Klux Klan, 1921-1928
Author: John Lee MaplesThe Ku Klux Klan in Columbus, Ohio 1915-1925
Author: Jess Paul AttilliThe Ku Klux Klan in Montgomery County, 1921-1927
Author: Janet L. PetersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montgomery County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Ku Klux Klan in Ohio After World War I.
Author: Embrey Bernard HowsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nativism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Fiery Cross
Author: Ronald E. MarecThe Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930
Author: Kenneth T. JacksonPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A detailed study of the KKK in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Knoxville, Memphis, and Portland. Includes statistics on occupational, religious and geographical make-up of Klan membership during the period studied.
The Ku Klux Klan in Northeast Ohio
Author: Steve ViglioPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The impact of the Ku Klux Klan in the twentieth century has been documented by many historians and scholars, from a national perspective. Local case studies are not quite as common. This thesis looks at two of the most important and popular chapters of the Ohio Ku Klux Klan, Akron and Youngstown. For Akron, I relied on thorough research of the Akron Beacon Journal newspaper archive. For Youngstown, I began research previously conducted by former Youngstown State University faculty Dr. William Jenkins' Steel Valley Klan and branched from there. I used The Vindicator newspaper as a reliable source for Youngstown Klan history. Specifically, the Akron chapter of the KKK previously has not been researched besides a Master's thesis several decades ago. Newspaper coverage was abundant in Akron and provided a clear, unbiased blueprint in order to perform the case study. Results of the case studies in Akron and Youngstown show mixed results in terms of the Klan's effectiveness. In Akron, the Klan was able to infiltrate the Akron public school system for a period. Their ultimate goal of barring Catholic teachers, however, was not achieved. Their popularity peaked by 1925 which was a bit longer than the Youngstown Klan. In Youngstown, they showed moderate success in enforcing bootlegging laws but the 1924 Niles riots signaled the peak for the Klan. Ultimately, from a national viewpoint, the fates of both chapters were very similar. By the end of the 1920s, national Klan popularity had diminished in a similar fashion in Akron and Youngstown respectively.