The following links are to a partial listing of various Ku Klux Klan activities, meetings, and attendees listed in the local press in the 1920s. This will eventually include all of the newspaper clippings and references to these events. A couple large blocks of information pertaining to the Champaign-Urbana area and the St. Joseph Klan activities will be added at a later date.
This is by no means a complete list of activities or even of published activities in the area. These were the easiest to find via a preliminary simple search while I was researching related topics. I'm hesitant to publish this list, only because I think its sparseness is misleading. But these times, dates, attendees, and locations could be helpful to someone looking for a starting point to research activity in their locality.
In other words, these are starting points for future research in local archives, oral histories, and documentation. The second Klan movement was only one small part of many white nationalist movements and cultural beliefs that came together during the racial Nadir in this era of American history. I also encourage people to find old textbooks and teaching materials that provide context for a lot of common neo-confederate revisionism, eugenics, and racial hygiene views inside and outside of the Klan.
Localities listed are mostly in or near Champaign County. There are some duplicate items, e.g. where a locality is listed as the location of a meeting and the location of attendees from other areas.
Jump to a Locality Links: Listed by locality in alphabetical order.
Champaign-Urbana: There will be a separate page for C-U.
St. Joseph (on a separate page).
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