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Historians discovered membership lists and the minutes of local meetings from KKK chapters scattered around the country.

He argued that many Southerners believed that Black people were voting for the Republican Party because they were being hoodwinked by the Loyal Leagues.In addition to its active membership, the Klan has an "unknown number of associates and supporters". Given their tradition of moderate social drinking, the German Americans did not strongly support Prohibition laws – the mayor had been a saloon keeper. Armed guerrilla warfare killed thousands of Negroes; political riots were staged; their causes or occasions were always obscure, their results always certain: ten to one hundred times as many Negroes were killed as whites.

Hall won a Pulitzer Prize for the crusade, the 1928 Editorial Writing Pulitzer, citing "his editorials against gangsterism, floggings and racial and religious intolerance". They targeted both Black and white people for violations of racial norms and for perceived moral lapses.But as we all start brainstorming our Halloween attire and celebrations for 2023, consider this your annual reminder to make sure the spooktacular outfit you've got in mind won't rain on anyone else's parade. The police chief and district attorney refused to prosecute, explicitly and publicly stating they believed that Johnson deserved this treatment. Newman says Black "disliked the Catholic Church as an institution" and gave over 100 anti-Catholic speeches to KKK meetings across Alabama in his 1926 election campaign. At its peak, claimed Klan membership exceeded four million and comprised 20% of the adult white male population in many broad geographic regions, and 40% in some areas.

The incredibly poor-taste outfit included a skeleton dress with a measuring tape belt to "cinch the waist. Social historian Leonard Moore titled his monograph Citizen Klansmen (1997) and contrasted the intolerant rhetoric of the group's leaders with the actions of most of the membership. In Michigan, for instance, 40,000 members lived in Detroit, where they made up more than half of the state's membership.

In terms of the Klan, it developed evidence based on the characteristics, beliefs, and behavior of the typical membership, and downplayed accounts by elite sources.