The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest by Charles C. Alexander

Author:Charles C. Alexander [Alexander, Charles C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Kentucky Press
Published: 2021-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

1 Bruce Bliven, “From the Oklahoma Front,” New Republic XXXVI (October 17, 1923), 202.

2 See the Tulsa Tribune, September 18, 26, 1922; New York Times, December 3, 1922, sec. z, pt. 2, p. 5.

3 On the Farmer-Labor Reconstruction League, see Gilbert C. Fite, “Oklahoma’s Reconstruction League: An Experiment in Farmer-Labor Politics,” Journal of Southern History, XIII (November 1947), 535-55, and “John A. Simpson: The Southwest’s Militant Farm Leader,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review, XXXV (March 1949), 563-84.

4 Howard A, Tucker, Governor Walton’s Ku Klux Klan War (Oklahoma City, 1923), 3-6.

5 Bliven, “From the Oklahoma Front,” 203.

6 Ernest T. Bynum, Personal Recollections of Ex-Governor Walton (2d. ed., Oklahoma City, 1924), 39-40; Victor E. Harlow, Oklahoma: Its Origin and Development (Oklahoma City, 1949), 357; Tulsa Tribune, May 15, 1922.

7 New York Times, June 18, 1922, sec. VIII, p. 6.

8 See the county by county survey of the gubernatorial race in Tulsa Tribune, July 23, 27-31, 1922.

9 Oscar Ameringer, If You Don’t Weaken (New York, 1940), 369-72; Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, July 16, 1922; Harlow, Oklahoma, 358.

10 Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, July 31, 1922; Tulsa Tribune, August 1, 1922.

11 Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, August 15, 1922; Tulsa Tribune, August 3, 4, 1922.

12 Tulsa Tribune, August 6, 1922.

13 “The University of Oklahoma and the Ku Klux Klan,” School and Society, XVI (October 7, 1922), 412-13; Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, August 6, 7, 16, 1922; Atlanta Imperial Nighthawk, May 9, 1923.

14 Harlow, Oklahoma, 358-59; Bynum, Personal Recollections of Ex-Governor Walton, 41.

15 Tulsa Tribune, November 8, 1922.

16 Edward E. Dale and Jesse L. Rader, Readings in Oklahoma History (Evanston, Ill., 1930), 735-39.

17 Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, January 29, 1923.

18 Bynum, Personal Recollections of Ex-Governor Walton, 71-72.

19 Minor Meriwether to Dr. W. T. Tilley, January 11, 1923, photographic copy in Jack C. Walton Collection, Division of Manuscripts, University of Oklahoma Library, Norman.

20 Minor Meriwether to Edwin DeBarr, February 14, 1923, Brown Harwood to W. T. Tilley, undated, William J. Simmons to Tilley, May 5, 1923, reprinted in Oklahoma City Oklahoma Leader, December 14, 1923. Copies of correspondence relating to Walton’s becoming a Klansman were printed in other newspapers in Oklahoma, but the Oklahoma Leader, the Socialist and Reconstruction League organ edited by Patrick S. Nagle, carried the most complete collection of letters.

21 Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, February 1, 2, 1923; 9th Oklahoma Legislature, House Journal, Regular Session, 255, 291, 406, 409, 422, 441, 442.

22 New York Times, March 17, 1923; Tulsa Tribune, same date.

23 Bliven, “From the Oklahoma Front,” 204; Harlow, Oklahoma, 360; Edwin C. McReynolds, Oklahoma: A History of the Sooner State (Norman, 1954), 343-44; Edward E. Dale and Morris L. Wardell, History of Oklahoma (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1948), 338.

24 See the analysis of the political situation in the state in Tulsa Tribune, June 13, 1923.

25 Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, May 14, 1923.

26 Mid, May 15, 1923.

27 Bliven, “From the Oklahoma Front,” 204.

28 Tulsa Tribune, June 27, 1923; Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, same date.

29 Tulsa Tribune, June 28, 1923.

30 Ibid., June 29-July 1, July 5, 12, 1923.

31 Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, July 19, 1923; Tulsa Tribune, July 20, 1923.

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