KKK

MEMBERSHIP

• The KKK grew during the 1920s.The KKK went from a few thousand members to over a 100,000 in 10 months.
• The members had to pay a $10 initiation fee, $4 of which was kicked back to local organizers as an incentive to recruit

HATRED

• The KKK were antiforeign,anti-Catholic,antiblack,anti-Jewish,antipacifist,anti-Communist,anti-Internationalist,anti evolutionist, antibootlegger,antigambling, anti-adultery, and anti-birth control.

SONGS AND SLOGANS

• Some rally songs were, "The Fiery Cross on High", "100 Percent American", and "The Ku Klux Klan and the Pope."
• One Brutal slogan was kill the Kikes, Koons, and Katholics. Another slogan is "Keep America American"

DAVID CURTIS STEPHENSON

• The leader of Indiana's Klan was David Curtis Stephenson, a Texan who had worked as a printer's apprentice in Oklahoma before becoming a salesman in Indiana. Given control of the Klan in Indiana in 1922 and the right to organize in 20 other states, he soon became a millionaire from the sale of robes and hoods. A crowd estimated at 200,000 attended one Klan gathering in Kokomo, Ind., in 1923.

DAVID CURTIS STEPHENSON (CONT'D)

• In 1925, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting 28-year-old Madge Oberholtzer. Stephenson's downfall, which was followed by the indictment and prosecution of many Klan-supported politicians on corruption charges, led members to abandon the organization in droves. Within a year, the number of Klansmen in Indiana fell from 350,000 to 15,000. By 1930, the Klan had just 45,000 members in the nation as a whole.

CONFEDERATE FLAG

• The battle flag was flown by several Confederate Army units. The most notable among them was Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

CONFEDERATE FLAG (CONT'D)

• In 1961, to honor the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, South Carolina lawmakers raised the Confederate battle flag over the State House.