Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard, Ku Klux Klan, December 1925

Author
Ku Klux Klan
Date
December 1925
Name of Author
Hiram Wesley Evans
Body

“Also, we believe that races of men are as distinct as animals; that any mixture between races of any great divergence is evil; that the American stock, which was bred under highly selective surroundings, has proved its value and should not be mongrelized…”Hiram Wesley Evans, “The Klan: Defender of Americanism,” in The Twenties in Contemporary Commentary: The Ku Klux Klan, ed. National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, NC: National Humanities Center, 2012), 2, http://americainclass.org/sources/becomingmodern/divisions/text1/colcommentaryklan.pdf. Originally published as “The Klan: Defender of Americanism,” Forum, December 1925, http://www.unz.org/Pub/Forum-1925dec-00801.

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Rhetoric Category
Anti-Miscegenation
Racist
Threat
KKK (Ku Klux Klan)

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