allegedly, when my grandfather ran (published) the newspaper in Clarksburg, West Virginia, in the 1920s, it crusaded against the KKK there. Coal-miners joined the cause, using dynamite to threaten the KKK. That's what my father said, but my mom said there was no evidence.
On 3/25/07, Daniel Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The KKK was so ubiquitous at its height (something like 25% of adult males in Indiana, for example) that it could hardly have avoided having a large proportion of its support coming from the working class. Need to distinguish, by the way, between the original 19th century KKK, the one in "Gone With The Wind" and the 1920s revival KKK, which was re-established in the wake of Griffith's film. They were both terrorist organisations, but they aren't the same bunch - there was no organisational continuity and a lot of doctrinal differences (most notably, anti-Catholicism was only a feature of revival-KKK). As far as I can tell, the anti-Klan societies which were also a big feature of the 1920s revival period (Knights of the Flaming Circle, Order of Anti-Poke-Noses, etc) were mainly middle class affairs. best dd --------- To what extent were workers involved in the KKK? While Gone with the Wind has been rightly criticized, what it captures well is the fact that the KKK involved the pillars of community, more often than not. -- Yoshie
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