Huge Ku Klux Klan Event Set for Gratz, 1924
The announcement of an event that was to become the largest Ku Klux Klan demonstration ever held in the Lykens Valley, appeared in the September 26, 1924, edition of the […]
Ku Klux Klan Announces Presence in Williamstown, 1924
On Saturday, May 10, 1924, the Ku Klux Klan announced its presence in Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, by burning a cross on the culm bank west of the colliery. The […]
Ku Klux Klan Can Parade, But Not with Masks!
One of the ways that mayors of cities in the coal regions where the Ku Klux Klan wanted to demonstrate or parade controlled the situations was to insist that anyone […]
Ku Klux Klan Packs Methodist Church Service, 1926
The Ku Klux Klan was known to show up at church services, many times unannounced, and then before leaving, present the pastor with a monetary gift. In the case of […]
Ku Klux Klan Wedding in Shamokin, 1928
A group of Ku Klux Klansmen and Klanswomen numbering just under 200, and all in full Klan regalia, turned out in support of a wedding in Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania […]
Centralia – Ku Klux Klan Burns Two Crosses, 1925
An explosion followed by the burning of a fiery cross occurred twice in the vicinity of Centralia, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in October 1925. This was the way the Ku Klux […]
Tamaqua Woman Terrorized by Ku Klux Klan, 1924
In 1924, a woman in Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, made a complaint against four alleged members of the Ku Klux Klan – that they had kidnapped her, threatened her life, […]
Judge Robert E. Woodside – A Reflection on the Ku Klux Klan
A photograph of some examples of Lykens Valley area Ku Klux Klan uniforms. The Klan was very prominent in the valley in the mid-1920s. Judge Robert E. Woodside, who was […]