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

ISBN-13: 9780367662448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 212 str.

Miguel Hernandez

Opis

The Second Ku Klux Klan’s success in the 1920s remains one of the order’s most enduring mysteries. This study explores the nature of fraternities, and the overlap between the Klan and Freemasonry. Drawing on untouched archival resources, it presents a detailed analysis of the Klan and its relationship with the traditions of American fraternalism.

Spis treści

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?

O autorze

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