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Ku Klux Klan (1915- )

 Organization

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

George Estes papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1543
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence; manuscripts including "Enemies of the Klan," 1923, "The Wayfaring Man," 1922, and "Peter Holds the Keys," 1933, regarding anti-Catholicism, Freemasonry, the Ku Klux Klan and other ethnic and religious controversies of the 1920s.

Dates: circa 1920-1940

Ku Klux Klan appointment certificate for Wilbur F. Fordyce

 Collection
Identifier: Coll890
Abstract

Certificate appointing Wilbur F. Fordyce (written as W. F. Fordyce on the form) field director of the Junior Department for the white supremacist organization the Ku Klux Klan. Wilbur Franklin Fordyce (1899-1956) was a resident of West Linn, Oregon, from the 1920s to 1950s; it is unknown how long he was a member of the Klan.

Dates: 1925 February 1

Eastern Oregon Ku Klux Klan meeting minutes

 Collection
Identifier: Coll886
Abstract

Minutes of a Ku Klux Klan meeting in September 1923 in eastern Oregon, likely in Baker County. The Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic organization that had a large number of members and considerable political influence in Oregon in the early 1920s.

Dates: 1923 September 12

Ku Klux Klan pamphlets

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 899
Abstract

Pamphlets that had belonged to an Oregon member of the Ku Klux Klan and which contain Klan bylaws and ritual instructions. The Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic organization that had a large number of members and considerable political influence in Oregon in the early 1920s.

Dates: 1921-1928

Roger Rasmussen collection of Baker Klan No. 13 records and Ku Klux Klan research materials

 Collection
Identifier: Coll862
Abstract

The collection consists of materials compiled by Roger Rasmussen. These include records and ephemera of Baker Klan No. 13, to which his grandfather Walter Lee Lansing (1897-1962) had belonged; Rasmussen's own research about members of the Ku Klux Klan in Oregon and other individuals; and books and articles about the Klan, white supremacy, and anti-Catholicism.

Dates: 1880-2021; Majority of material found within 1913-2021

The perils of pluralism: Oregon's compulsory public school bill of 1922

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1547
Abstract

Photocopy typescript of "The Perils of Pluralism: Oregon's Compulsory Public School Bill of 1922," 1968, regarding the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in support of the bill.

Dates: 1968

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Oregon 5
White supremacy movements -- Oregon -- 20th century 3
manuscripts for publication 2
Anti-Catholicism 1
Anti-Catholicism -- United States 1