Index

Page numbers reflect those in print edition.

Americanism. See nationalism

American Unity League, 185–186

anti-Catholicism, 12

in American history, 44–45

and confession, 152–154

and gender, 149–152, 154–155

and Knights of Columbus, 205–207

and marriage, 156–160

and Protestantism, 42–43, 46–47

Romanism, 202

anti-Semitism, 12

 

Beck, Glenn, 258–262, 264.

See also Tea Party Movement

Birth of a Nation, 4

Burrows, Nelson B., 204–205

 

Catholicism, 198–199

and the Klan, 46–47, 201–203, 205

Roman Catholicism and the Ku

Klux Klan, 198–200

See also Evans, Hiram Wesley; Kourier Magazine

Christian Century, 105–107, 158–159, 177–178

Christianity, muscular, 101–102

citizenship

and the home, 134–135, 160

and religion, 94–96

See also Evans, Hiram Wesley

The Clansman, 4, 74, 122–123

Colbert, Stephen, 260

Comer, Robbie Gill, 138–139, 157

and the men’s order, 141–142

on motherhood, 145–148

and Protestant theology, 139–142, 146

on women’s roles, 142–148

common schools. See public schools

Conley, Jim, 2

conservatism, 12, 232–234

Cosmopolitanism, 78–79

crosses, fiery, 71, 74–77

 

Dawn, The, 184–185

 

ethnographic methods, 28–29, 31

and empathy, 28–31

Evans, Hiram Wesley (H. W.), 5, 37, 39

and Abraham Lincoln, 83–84

on Catholics, 202–204

on immigration, 171–172

on nationalism, 77–79

on race, 190–196

on white supremacy, 180, 182

 

Fauntroy, Walter, 260

femininity. See womanhood

flag, American, 71, 72, 139

Frank, Leo, 2–3

lynching of, 3–4

fraternity, 100–101

 

Harold the Klansman, 123–125, 181–182

hate. See intolerance

history, moral, 240–242

place of judgment, 236–241

 

immigration, 6, 80–81, 84–85

Johnson-Hartley Act, 169, 171–172

Menace of Modern Immigration, 80, 169–170, 175

and nativism, 169–172

Imperial Night-Hawk (magazine), 21–22, 25–26, 67–68

on Catholics, 201–202, 204, 245

on immigration, 170–171

purpose of, 183

on race, 162–163

intolerance,

in America, 235, 238, 242–245, 247, 249

and Catholics, 47, 95, 111, 209,

and the Klan, 27, 201, 204, 224, 230–233

after September 11th, 250–253, 256, 263

 

Jackson, Helen, 149, 155

Convent Cruelties, 149–152

Jefferson, Charles E., 198–200

Jesus, 40–41, 43, 45–46

as example, 50, 52–53

and Jewishness, 48–49

as a Klansman, 48–50

and manhood, 103–105

and sacrifice, 52–54, 107–108

traits of, 105–107

Jones, Terry, 250, 262, 264

Koran burning, 256–258

 

King, L. J., 152–155

Klan, Ku Klux (1915–1930)

beginnings, 4–5, 8, 37

charitable giving, 50–52

in Christian press, 66–67

critics, 105

demographics, 8–9

end of, 227, 229–231

“false” religion, 18–19, 36

Fry, Henry, 34–35

on history, 80–84, 143–144, 191–192

on the Jews, 174–175

Junior Order, 116–118

Klansman’s Creed, 165–166

on the Negro, 175–176

organizational structure, 112–113

persecution of, 108–109, 111, 182–184, 210–211

populism, 17

print, 13, 20–22

violence, 15–16

Witcher, W. C., 35–36

Klan, Reconstruction (1866–1871), 6, 7, 8

Klan, women of the Ku Klux, 125–126

origins of, 135–138

Klans, modern, 247–248

Kloran, 117–118

knighthood, Christian, 101–102, 118–119

Knights of Columbus, 205–208

supposed oath, 206–208

Kourier Magazine, 22

on Catholics, 40–44

on immigration, 172–173

on the Negro, 176–177

on white supremacy, 177–179, 231

 

lynching, 15–16. See also Frank, Leo

 

manhood (masculinity), 115, 119–121

and Protestantism, 97–100, 105

marriage, 156

Marlborough-Vanderbilt, 158–159

martyrdom, 107–108

Abbott, Thomas, 110–112, 184

Roberts, Fred, 109–110, 112

Meacham, Jon, 250

Mecklin, John Moffatt, 14–15,

militarism, 112–113

and democracy, 113–114

and masculinity, 114–116

motherhood, 130–131, 145–146

and citizenship, 132–133

and the home, 134

and religion, 131–133

 

nationalism, 77–79

and the founding, 81, 84–85

and Protestantism, 79–82, 231–235, 239–244, 248, 252–254, 263–264

nativism, 44. See also anti-Catholicism; immigration

naturalization, 34–35

 

Oberholtzer, Madge, 226–230

Our Sunday Visitor, 159–160, 208–209, 222

 

parochial schools, 92–95

Patriotism, 70, 71,

Phagan, Mary, 1–3, 226, 230

Knights of, 3, 226

Protestant, 5–6, 17–21, 26

definition of, 40–41

and freedom, 41–43

Luther, Martin, 39, 43, 45–46

and masculinity, 64–65

nationalism, 77–79

Reformation, 43, 45–46, 87

relationship with Klan, 38–39, 63–64

unification of, 65–66

public schools, 85–86

and Catholics, 91–94

and citizenship, 86, 88–91

and religion, 86–97, 89–91

 

race

and African Americans, 16, 76, 175–179, 181

the American, 190–196

and Jews, 16, 76, 167, 171, 174–175

and Klan membership, 165–166, 168

miscegenation, 181–182

and purity, 173–174

religion

“false,” 18–19

and print, 24–26, 38–39

Right, American, 12, 232–235

Right, Christian, 236

Right, Far, 234–235

Riot of 1924, Klan–Notre Dame, 200, 212, 217–219, 222

and Americanism, 210–211, 215–216, 219, 221, 224

and anti-Catholicism, 214–215, 223

Klan descriptions, 209–215

Notre Dame descriptions, 216–217, 219–221

The Truth about the Notre Dame Riot, 212–214

robes

and community, 61–63

construction of, 58

images of, 56–57

modern, 246–249

and Protestantism, 58–60

and symbolism, 55–56

and white supremacy, 186–190

 

Santelli, Rick, 258–259. See also Tea

Party Movement

Simmons, William

beginning of Klan, 4–6, 8

and Klan ritual, 37–38, 51, 74, 98–99

on race, 163–166, 175–176, 193

Smith, Albert “Al,” 45, 229, 231

Stephenson, David Curtis “Steve,” 226–231

 

Tea Party Movement, 258–262, 264

tolerance, 250–251

Tolerance (newspaper), 184–185

 

uniforms. See robes

 

Walsh, Matthew J., 216–217, 219–220

whiteness, 163, 173

definition of, 166–168

and Protestantism, 190–197

theology of, 178–180

white supremacy, 163–164

womanhood, white

description of, 123, 125–126, 156, 160

protection of, 128–130, 148–149

See also Comer, Robbie Gill