Fred L. Gifford (1878-1945) was the leader ("Grand Dragon") for the Oregon Ku Klux Klan between 1921 and 1924, when the "invisible empire" was influential in virtually every part of the state. Collection consists of Ku Klux Klan membership cards, driver's licenses, and other ID cards, 1920-1933; newspaper clippings, 1945, regarding Gifford's death; and a manuscript letter to his wife, 1924.

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.

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.

Collection includes minutes, financial statements and other administrative documents regarding Klan activities in Oregon, including its involvement in Walter M. Pierce's successful gubernatorial campaign in 1922 and the passage of the Compulsory Education Bill of 1922.

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.