Obituary of Rev. Dr. G. W. Humphreys – Spoke Out Against Ku Klux Klan
Few religious leaders spoke out against the Ku Klux Klan when it was at its height in the mid-1920s in the Lykens Valley area. One exception was the Rev. Dr. […]
Few religious leaders spoke out against the Ku Klux Klan when it was at its height in the mid-1920s in the Lykens Valley area. One exception was the Rev. Dr. […]
The Rev. Dr. George W. Humphreys was one of the great religious voices of his generation. During the mid 1920s, at the time when the Ku Klux Klan was at […]
The story of the the nomination and confirmation of Sen. Hugo L. Black, Alabama, to the U. S. Supreme Court in 1937, was widely reported in the national and local […]
In the presidential election of 1928, Governor Alfred E. Smith, the candidate of the Democratic Party who by faith was a Roman Catholic, was pitted against Herbert Hoover, the candidate […]
The presence of the Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania in the 1920s and 1930s has been briefly discussed here in past blog posts. What has not been mentioned before is […]
It is not known whether the Ku Klux Klan would have survived in the Lykens Valley area without the support of major institutions, including religion, government and the schools. This […]
On 21 November 1926, a major fire ripped through Klan Haven, an orphanage established by the Ku Klux Klan near Paxtang, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Forty-six children were led to safety […]
Lenore Felicia [Schwalm] Otto Stutzman died in 1925. Her obituary, which appeared in the West Schuylkill Herald of Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, told of many achievements in her life, […]