President Warren G. Harding joined the Ku Klux Klan in a secret
ceremony in the White House in the early 1920s. About the same time a
"klaven" of the Klan was established at Harvard University. Shawn Lay
cites these and other, perhaps, unexpected facts about the KKK during
the height of its power and influence during the 1920s. The point is
that the Klan attracted not just "unrestrained racists and bigots from
the lower reaches of the socioeconomic order" (as Lay suggests scholars
once widely believed) but rather that "beneath the threatening white
robes and hoods walked millions of otherwise respectable Americans,
many of them earnestly striving to forge a better life for themselves
and their families." [more]
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