A Fever in the Heartland, page 35
Black voters and, 174, 178–80, 353–54
and bribery attempts, 281
Klan members of, 173–75, 186
Klan’s influence on, xviii, 133, 173–75
and presidential elections, 8, 18, 133
Denver, 34, 132, 169, 175–76, 180
Denver Post, 132
Deshler Hotel (Columbus, Ohio), 150–53
Dickinson, Martha L., 331, 349
disenfranchisement, 18–19, 246, 345
Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 19–21
Donahey, Victor, 126
Douglass, Frederick, 10, 76
Du Bois, W. E. B., 240, 249–50, 353
Duvall, John L., 281, 299
backed by Klan, 228–29, 233
charged with bribery, 336–37
elected mayor, 287–88
runs for mayor, 228–29, 233
signs segregation law, 333
stuffs city hall with Klansmen, 287–88, 336
E
Earlham College, 71
East Coast, 23, 176
elections, xxi, 81, 130, 161, 170
bribery and, 281–82
eligible voters for, 181
Klan influence on, 177–78, 300–301
Klan rallies for, 276, 281
Klan’s plans for, 124
See also presidency
Eli Lilly company, 202
Elrod, Milt, 97
enslaved people, xxi, 4, 8, 73, 86. See also slavery
eugenics, 247
crusades of, 23, 109–10
and immigrants, 104–7, 171
priority for Klan, 104–6, 186
Stephenson’s speech on, 104, 106, 108, 110–11, 324
sterilization laws and, xvi–xvii, 105–7, 110, 346–47
Evans, Hiram Wesley, 34, 66, 129, 165, 227, 230
background of, 16–17
creates Klan baseball team, 98
crowns Stephenson Grand Dragon, 116–17, 128, 327
death of, 351
at Democratic National Convention of 1924, 173–74
eugenics and, 106
expels Stephenson, 176–77, 245, 255
feuds with Stephenson, 128, 130, 153, 156, 158, 173, 245
hands over Imperial Wizard title, 351
joins Atlanta leadership, 24–25
leads Dallas Klan, 17–18, 42–43
leads Pennsylvania march, 133–35
leads Washington parade, 247, 249, 251–52, 255
plots against Simmons, 47–49
political candidates and, 132–33, 172–74
refuses to buy Valparaiso University, 128, 156
speeches of, 247, 252, 254–55, 334
and Stephenson’s trial, 245–47, 284–85
sues Pittsburgh Klan, 338–39
on Time cover, xviii, 172
tours West, 175–76
tries to repair Klan image, 284–85, 327, 334
Evansville, Indiana, 29, 112
anti-Klan forces in, 162, 352
congressmen of, 162, 181
cross burnings in, 125
immigrants in, 14–15
Klan’s rebirth in, 11–15, 27, 32, 42, 233
large Klan rally in, 87
segregation in, 13–14
Stephenson in, 12–13, 15, 27–28, 42, 62, 64–65, 252, 264, 338
evolution, teaching of, 246–47
extortion schemes, 194–95
F
Feightner, Harold C., 44, 283, 341, 352
Feuerlicht, Morris, 60–61, 165–66, 243
Fiery Cross (newspaper), xviii, 26, 57, 63, 71, 75, 86–89, 97, 102, 113–15, 120, 150, 157, 161, 176, 328
Fink, Joseph L., 58
First Christian Church (Noblesville, Indiana), 237–38, 281
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 31
Ford, Henry, 59–60, 125
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 5–7, 10
Fort Pillow Massacre, 5
Founding Fathers, 117–18
Frank, Leo, 59, 344
fraternal organizations, xv–xvi, 22, 25, 27, 31, 47, 91, 127–28
freedmen/freedwomen, 4, 7–9
Fuller, Lucille, 181–82, 191, 207
G
Gabbard, Green and Rebecca, 85
Gennett recording studio, 67–72, 109, 176
Gentry, Earl
arrest/indictment of, 223–24, 228, 231, 256
case/trial against, 240–42, 261, 263–64, 289, 306–9, 311–16
charged with arson, 321
kidnaps Oberholtzer, 193, 195–203, 205, 263, 277–79
murder of, 351
not-guilty verdict of, 320
working for Stephenson, 189, 191
Georgia, 9, 38, 133, 210
anti-immigrant sentiment in, xviii
Klan chaplain arrested in, 245
Klan governors in, 130
Klan rallies in, xviii
Klansmen of, 80, 249, 351
rebirth of Klan in, 22, 59, 117
German American Bund, 351
Gershwin, George, 107
Glass, Bernice, 147
Good Housekeeping, 110
Gooding, Charles, 241, 261, 282, 318, 322–23
Grand Dragons, xiii, 110, 116, 156, 181, 284–85, 328
Grand Wizards, 5–7
Grant, Guy, 333
Grant, Madison, 55
Grant, Ulysses, 9–10, 18, 163, 250
Great Britain. See Britain
Great Migration, 74, 162
Great War, 57
American women during, 141
Americans killed in, 73
Black soldiers and, 15
Stephenson’s lies about, xxiii, 96, 266
veterans of, 99, 158, 210, 257, 266, 271–72
Griffith, D. W., 19–21, 37
H
Hamilton, Jeanette “Nettie.” See Stephenson, Jeanette “Nettie”
Hamilton County, Indiana, 38–39, 239–42, 252–55, 259, 306, 315, 344
Hammond, Indiana
Klan morality patrols in, 102
and Oberholtzer kidnapping, 199–205, 211, 215, 219–20, 226
and Oberholtzer trial, 258, 263, 278–79, 289, 307, 310, 315
hangings, 15, 33, 59, 163, 341–42. See also lynchings
Harding, Florence, 124–25
Harding, Warren G., 31, 110, 124–25
Harlem Renaissance, 14–15
Harston, Dan, 17
Harvard University, 24, 97–98
Hawkins, Omer, 221, 223–24
Hayes, Rutherford B., 18
Herschell, William, xix–xx
Hill, Stanley, 144, 183, 302
Hines, Fred, 242, 256
Hitler, Adolf, 55, 107, 346–47
Hoff, Charles M., 100–103
Holand, Mike, 340
Holmes, Ira, 75, 242–43, 293, 295–96, 309–10, 323
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 347
Holocaust, 107, 172
Holt, Edwin, 340
homes, 227
bombing/burning of, xxi, 3, 75–77
invasions/searches of, 6–7, 32, 39, 85, 100
sanctity of, 31, 33, 56
Hoover, David, 187
Hoover, J. Edgar, 199
Horse Thief Detective Association
activities/role of, 32, 71, 102
calls to outlaw, 347
dossiers gathered by, 170
Indiana chapters of, 34, 240
and mayoral election, 232–33
newspaper reports on, 44–45, 84–85
Stephenson and, 30, 34, 39, 103, 176, 223, 232–33
Householder, Cora, 293–94
Huffington, Joe, 12–13, 24–25, 227
Hughes, Langston, 14–15
Hull, Clela, 149
I
Illinois, 80, 89, 173, 180–81, 349. See also Chicago
immigrants, 78–80, 135, 168, 339
artistic contributions of, 107
Barr on, 54–55
and eugenics, 104–7, 109
fear of, 127, 267
Klan closing door on, xvii–xviii, 43, 132, 172, 246, 255, 345–46
and Klan cross burnings, 81–82, 127–28, 157
and Klan recruitment, 23–24
Klan’s hatred of, 23–24, 30, 58–59
and Prohibition, xvii
restrictions on, 131, 170–72, 181, 346
Stephenson’s speech on, 104–5, 108, 110–11
and World War II intelligence, 346
Immigration Act of 1924 (National Origins Act), 170–72, 346
Imperial Night-Hawk (newspaper), xvi, 134–35
Imperial Palace, 49, 61, 351
Imperial Wizards, xviii, 27, 33, 49, 351
Independence Day, xiv–xv, 112–22, 205, 325
Indiana
constitution of, 37
description/history of, xix
as epicenter of Klan, xv–xxi
Klan charter of, xx, 42
Klan violence in, xiv–xv, xxi
Klan’s control of, 84–85, 100, 113, 117, 122, 144, 170, 186–88, 306, 320–21
large number of Klansmen in, 65–66, 80, 91, 156
morality police in, 34
as “North Dixie,” 37
Northern Klan formed in, 176–77
resistance to Klan in, xxi, 78–89
Stephenson’s control over, xiii–xv, 27, 81, 285, 305, 330
Stephenson’s political power in, 83–84, 179–80, 296
vigilante groups in, 30, 32
Indiana legislature
bribery charges and, 336–37
as “Klan Legislature,” 186–88
Klan’s loss of influence on, 344
run by Klan, xv, xxi, 300–301, 331–32, 336
Stephenson’s bribing of, 336–37
Stephenson’s control over, 186–88, 194, 229, 300–301, 307, 320–21, 332, 338, 344–45
Stephenson’s shaping legislation of, 330
Indiana State Police, 283
Indiana State Prison, 322–24, 326–28, 335–36
Indiana State Supreme Court, 348
Indiana University, xvi, 72, 109, 119, 231
Indianapolis, 211, 249, 252
all-Klan slate removed in, 353
anti-Klan forces in, 170
Black community in, 73–76, 108–9, 163, 177–80
cross burnings in, 129
hospital for whites in, 166
Klan headquarters in, xiv, 82–83
Klan mayor in, 226, 232–33, 330
Klan pastors in, 88
Klan politicians of, 170, 287–88, 330, 333
Klan rallies in, 276, 281
as “Klanopolis,” 229
Klan’s control of, 229, 288
Klanswomen meetings in, 56–57, 333–34
manufacturers in, 29
movie boycotted in, 165
Oberholtzer living in, 140–41
O’Donnell’s Saint Patrick’s Day speech in, 78, 80–82
