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William Joseph Simmons (1880-1945), founder, Second Ku Klux Klan. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons . Stone Mountain, Georgia, 1910. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Luther Ivan Powell (1878-1951), Ku Klux Klan King Kleagle of the Pacific Northwest Domain, 1923. The Watcher on the Tower. Ku Klux Klansman, Washington state, ca. 1923
William J. Simmons, seated during a 1921 investigation of the Ku Klux Klan by a U.S. House of Representatives committee, was inspired by D. W. Griffith's film, The Birth of a Nation, and the Leo Frank trial in Atlanta to reestablish the Klan in 1915. Simmons designed the hooded uniforms and secret rituals associated with the organization.
William Joseph Simmons (Harpersville, 6 maggio 1880 – Atlanta, 18 maggio 1945) è stato un politico e predicatore statunitense. Fondò il secondo Ku Klux Klan nel 1915, in coincidenza con il Giorno del Ringraziamento .
Rebirth. The rebirth of the Klan began in 1915 when William J. Simmons, enamored of secret societies and fraternal organizations, attempted to resurrect the "Invisible Empire" at a ceremony in 1915 at Stone Mountain, Georgia, near Atlanta.He eventually managed to attract a small following in Alabama and Georgia.
William Joseph Simmons ( Harpersville, 1880– Atlanta, 18 de mayo de 1945) fue el fundador del segundo Ku Klux Klan, en 1915. Simmons participó en la Guerra Hispano-Estadounidense, y estudió medicina en la Universidad Johns Hopkins. Afiliado a la iglesia Metodista Episcopal, predicó hasta que fue expulsado en 1912.
Colonel (the title was strictly honorary) William Joseph Simmons raised the order from its post-Civil War grave in 1915, fulfilling a childhood dream to revive the KKK. A former Methodist circuit rider who made his living selling fraternal life insurance policies, Simmons lay recovering from an auto accident in an Atlanta hospital when a vision of Klansmen in flowing white robes stirred his ...
For example, in 1924, the Klan supported William Lee Cazort for governor of Arkansas, leading his opponent in the Democratic Party primary, Thomas Terral, to seek honorary membership through a Louisiana klavern so as not to be tagged as the anti-Klan candidate. In 1922, Texans elected Earle B. Mayfield, an avowed Klansman who ran openly as that year’s “klandidate,” to the U.S. Senate. At ...
