CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

1. Understanding Wood County

2. The Rise of the Second Ku Klux Klan

3. Racism, Nativism and Religious Intolerance in 1920s Wood County

4. The Growth of the Ku Klux Klan in Wood County

5. The Peak of the Wood County Ku Klux Klan

6. The Wood County Ku Klux Klan as Public Spectacle

7. Resistance to the Wood County Ku Klux Klan

8. Decline of the Wood County Ku Klux Klan

Glossary of Klan Terminology

Appendix I: Members of the Wood County Klavern of the Ku Klux Klan, 1923–41

Appendix II: Wood County Klan New Initiate Oath Ceremony

Notes

Bibliography

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