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Inside the Klavern is an annotated collection of the minutes of a thriving Ku Klux Klan in La Grande, Oregon, between 1922 and 1924. The most complete set of Klan minutes ever uncovered, these documents illustrate the inner workings of a Klan chapter of more than three hundred members at a time when the national membership reached into the millions and the Invisible Empire was at the peak of its power. Through an extensive introduction and conclusion as well as brief notes previewing each installment of the minutes, David A. Horowitz places these unique documents in historical perspective. The La Grande minutes demonstrate Klan hostility to Roman Catholics, Jews, blacks, and hyphenated Americans. But they also explain how the chapter exercised requirements for admission, how officers were selected, and how Klansmen encountered difficulties enforcing the moral standards of their order. Because the Klan kligrapp (recording secretary) Harold R. Fosner recorded not only the official proceedings but also volunteered extemporaneous comments and gossip, readers get a genuine feeling for what it was like to attend the meetings. Through his own obvious excitement and commitment to the cause, Fosner re-creates the flavor, tone, and atmosphere of these meetings: Tis beyond my power of expression to relate the harmony and fellowship which reigned supreme. . . . Suffice to say that these were the golden moments of our lives.His evaluation of Klan propaganda, too, is telling: The weekly newsletter from Atlanta, Georgia, contained a little book, the official message of our emperor, one Col. William Joseph Simmons, read before the most noble band of men ever assembled and for the noblest cause in the world. To my firm belief this book is the leading masterpiece of our day and age. Horowitz concludes that although it is tempting to judge Jazz Age Klansmen by the standards of later generations, the story provided by the minutes is a complex onea chronicle of both compassion and complicity in cruelty, of positive social accomplishment and arbitrary and dysfunctional divisiveness.

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title Inside the Klavern The Secret History of a Ku Klux Klan of the - photo 1

title:Inside the Klavern : The Secret History of a Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s
author:Horowitz, David A.
publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin:080932248X
print isbn13:9780809322480
ebook isbn13:9780585333274
language:English
subjectKu Klux Klan (1915- ).--La Grande Klan No. 14 (La Grande, Or.)--History--Sources, White supremacy movements--Oregon--La Grande--History--Sources, La Grande (Or.)--Race relations, La Grande (Or.)--Social conditions.
publication date:1999
lcc:HS2330.K63I57 1999eb
ddc:322.4/2/0979571
subject:Ku Klux Klan (1915- ).--La Grande Klan No. 14 (La Grande, Or.)--History--Sources, White supremacy movements--Oregon--La Grande--History--Sources, La Grande (Or.)--Race relations, La Grande (Or.)--Social conditions.
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Inside the Klavern
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Letter from La Grande Klan secretary Harold R Fosner to Oregon governor Walter - photo 2
Letter from La Grande Klan secretary Harold R. Fosner to Oregon governor
Walter M. Pierce, July 11, 1923.
Courtesy of The Walter Pierce Papers, Coll. 68, Department of Special
Collections, University of Oregon Libraries
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Inside the Klavern
The Secret History of a Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s
Edited by David A. Horowitz
Page iv Copyright 1999 by the Board of Trustees Southern Illinois - photo 3
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Copyright 1999 by the Board of Trustees,
Southern Illinois University
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Designed by Dennis Roberts
02 01 00 4 3 2
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Inside the klavern : the secret history of a Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s /
edited by David A. Horowitz.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Ku Klux Klan (1915 ). La Grande Klan No. 14 (La Grande,
Or.)HistorySources. 2. White supremacy movements
OregonLa GrandeHistorySources. 3. La Grande (Or.)
Race relations. 4. La Grande (Or.)Social conditions.
I. Horowitz, David A. II. Ku Klux Klan (1915- ).
La Grande Klan No. 14 (La Grande, Or.)
HS2330.K63I57 1999 98-30730
322.4'2'0979571dc21 CIP
ISBN 0-8093-2247-1 (cloth: alk. paper)
ISBN 0-8093-2248-X (pbk.: alk. paper)
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI
Z39.48-1984Picture 4
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To the memory of my uncle,
Milton ("Mickey") David Levine (19131996),
who never gave up the dream of universal social justice
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Map: Locations of Ku Klux Klan Activity Described in the La Grande Minutes
xi
Introduction: Setting the Context
1
The Minutes
15
Conclusion: The Meaning of the La Grande Minutes
142
Notes
153
Index
171

Page ix
Acknowledgments
Historical scholarship is an innately individualistic task that cannot be accomplished without the unselfish cooperation of others. This fortunate contradiction has never been more apparent than in completion of this work.
My initial exploration of the La Grande Ku Klux Klan Minutes of 192224 was facilitated by a summer scholar's stipend from the Oregon Council for the Humanities in 1983. Relevant background work and occupational studies on Klan members were undertaken in connection with publication of "Order, Solidarity, and Vigilance: The Ku Klux Klan in La Grande, Oregon," in Shawn Lay, ed., The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992). The bulk of the task of compiling and annotating the minutes and producing the ancillary portions of this volume was completed during the spring of 1994, thanks to a partial release from teaching duties by the Portland State University Department of History.
The La Grande Minutes are housed in the Manuscripts Room of the Oregon History Center Research Library in Portland. The proper citation for the collection is Ku Klux Klan, La Grande, Or. Chapter, Records, 19221923, Oregon Historical Society, Mss. 2604. Permission to publish the documents has been granted by the Oregon Historical Society. Permission to reproduce the contents and letterhead of Harold R. Fosner's letter of July 11, 1923, to Walter M. Pierce has been extended by the University of Oregon. The document appears in The Walter Pierce Papers, Coll. 68, Department of Special Collections, University of Oregon Libraries.
The Oregon History Center's archival, library, and technical service staffs, led by Archival Collections Director Kris White, have extended themselves selflessly throughout the project. Manuscripts librarians Vicki Jones and Linda Long of the Department of Special Collections at the University of Oregon Libraries, and Patty Cutright, the reference librarian at Eastern Oregon University, also have been most helpful. I further wish to thank the staffs of the Multnomah County Public Library, the Tillamook County Public Library, and the
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