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Publicity And Prejudice: The New York World’S Exposé Of 1921 And The History Of The Second Ku Klux Klan, John T. Kneebone
Publicity And Prejudice: The New York World’S Exposé Of 1921 And The History Of The Second Ku Klux Klan, John T. Kneebone
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In September 1921 the New York World published a series of articles exposing the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., which had just started recruiting members across the country. Nearly two-dozen other newspapers carried the series, and the Klan became national news. Historians have argued that the World’s series had the ironic effect of publicizing the Klan to the nation, leading directly to the Klan’s millions of members a few years later. This article proposes that the World actually aroused opposition to the Klan, put forward arguments against the Klan that others would also use, and caused the …