Uncommon Character: Stories of Ordinary Men and Women Who Have Done the Extraordinary by Feavel Douglas

Author:Feavel, Douglas [Feavel, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aneko Press
Published: 2016-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

Now with the promotional wind of both the film and the presidency at its back, the Klan was fully re-birthed by a disgraced Methodist minister, William Simmons. In 1915, he initiated the renewed Klan by burning a cross above Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, and declaring himself the Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire. The regional Klan quickly roared back and membership soared. This Klan targeted new groups for harassment, which included Catholics, Jews, union organizers, civil rights workers, and immigrants, as well as blacks. Over one thousand white Americans, and countless black Americans, were eventually lynched. The Klan promoted itself outwardly as sustaining traditional Biblical and American values, but in actuality it was more occult, un-Christian, and violent than ever.

The second phase continued for the next fifty years, with only a slight disruption caused by the anti-fascist feelings engendered during the Second World War. This phase had the longest tenure, became most entrenched, and was the most vicious. The Klan was able to infiltrate, and very often control, local and county governments and law enforcement agencies – often reaching both the state and federal levels. The famed Hoover FBI was unable, and sometimes unwilling, to bring down phase two of the Klan despite decades of on-and-off efforts to do so. Its own organizational structure was known to have been penetrated by, or sympathetic to, the Klan. The secret internal nature of the Klan was its greatest protection, but it also benefited from overt membership numbers and wide, covert acceptance.

The Klan and Jim Crow dominated Southern society from Stetson’s childhood through his middle age; their influences saturated every aspect of the social order. Many journalists, lawmen, ministers, businessmen, and politicians joined the Klan; and at the federal level, several long-serving Democratic senators and congressmen were members. The House Un-American Activities Committee protractedly neglected its charter mission and continued to declare the Klan to be an acceptable element of American heritage.

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