Contributed by Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
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Description
The Ku Klux Klan marching in Hodgdon.
The first Ku Klux Klan faded from the South in the late 1870s and 1880s after the end of Reconstruction. A second Ku Klux Klan rose up from the Atlanta, Georgia area after World War I in response to fear of immigrants, radicalism and changing morals as well as hostility toward Roman Catholics, Jews, African Americans, bootleggers and divorcees.
The Klan is known to have had a presence in almost all Maine communities in the 1920s with a membership of about 20,000 to 40,000.
By the 1930s the Maine Klan fell apart as quickly as it grew with numerous scandals of financial mismanagement, bootlegging and the fact that the Maine people did not care for the ultimate hate campaigns once they became clear.
About This Item
- Title: Ku Klux Klan, Hodgdon, ca. 1924
- Creation Date: circa 1924
- Subject Date: circa 1924
- Location: , Hodgdon, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 8.9 cm x 5.7 cm
- Local Code: N-84
- Object Type: Image
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- African Americans
- bootleggers
- Discrimination
- F. Eugene Farnsworth
- High Klokard
- immigrants
- Jews
- KKK
- Klan
- Klansmen
- Ku Klux Klan
- Marches
- Nativism
- Parade
- Parades
- Prohibition
- Racism
- radicalism
- Ralph Owen Brewster
- Roman Catholics
- Temperance
- white supremacy
- World War I
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