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- Title
Jayhawker Fraternities: Masons, Klansmen and Kansas in the 1920s.
- Authors
ALLERFELDT, KRISTOFER
- Abstract
In the 1920s, like most of the rest of the nation Kansas found itself the target of the attentions of the KKK. One of its main ways of recruiting was via existing fraternities. Using new archival material this article investigates the response of one of the leading fraternities of the times – the Masons. What emerges is a picture of mixed responses – ranging from mutual hostility to active Klan recruitment within Masonic lodges. In many ways Kansas can be seen as a microcosm of the nation, and as such this study can add to our understanding of what drove up to 10 million American men and women to join this mysterious and now hated body.
- Subjects
KANSAS; UNITED States; FRATERNAL organizations; KU Klux Klan (1915- ); FREEMASONS; SOCIAL movements; KANSAS state history; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Journal of American Studies, 2012, Vol 46, Issue 4, p1035
- ISSN
0021-8758
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0021875812000734