Wicked Akron by Kymberli Hagelberg

Wicked Akron by Kymberli Hagelberg

Author:Kymberli Hagelberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.


J.B. Hanan, Akron School Board president and Summit County KKK exalted Cyclops. Akron Beacon Journal.

National religious headliners added to the Klan’s local muscle. Evangelist Bob Jones, who later founded the racially exclusionist Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, spoke at outdoor revivals in Akron and across the country flanked by the KKK’s iconic flaming cross. At his Goodyear Park appearance, however, Jones mixed racist rhetoric with an image more in keeping with the city’s status as the early twentieth-century home of high-tech inventors and rubber barons. The cross was electrified, three stories tall and cast a red glow across acres of rubber plant housing.



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