A Fever in the Heartland, page 39
Stephenson’s final statement about, 327
Stephenson’s not-guilty plea, 228–29
Stephenson’s supporters in, 290–92, 295–301, 305–7, 318
verdict in, 317–22, 324–26, 344, 348
witnesses in, 258, 267–74, 279–83, 293–302, 305–6, 312, 317
women in attendance, 261–62, 295–96, 306, 312, 320, 322
women’s protests about, 232, 241, 244
sterilization, xvi–xvii, 24, 105–7, 110, 346–47
Stern, William H., 38–39, 238–39, 260–61, 324, 344
Stoddard, Lothrop, 110
Stone Mountain (Georgia), 22, 48, 59, 117
Sunday, Billy, 52–53, 122
sundown laws, 75
Sutton, Martha Murray, 349–50
T
Tague, Cecil C., 85
Tarkington, Booth, xvii
temperance movement, 52–54, 56
Tennessee, 4–8, 18, 37, 246, 249, 349–50
Texas, 7, 80, 92, 117
Blacks murdered in, 8, 338–39
growth of Klan in, 24, 42
Klan parades in, 17
Klan violence in, 16–18, 39, 43
Klan’s political power in, 17, 43–44
Thomas, Levi, 280–81, 312, 315
Thomas, Olive, 202
Thompson, W. H. S., 339
Tilden, Samuel J., 18
Time magazine, xviii, 172
Tipton, Indiana, 340
Tolerance (newspaper), 78–80, 82–85, 88, 126, 155, 157, 228, 243
Townsend, James M., 38
“Trade With Klan” stickers, 34, 57, 267
trial. See Stephenson v. State trial
Truman, Harry, 346
Tulsa, 76–77, 130, 348
Tulsa Race Massacre, 76–77, 130
Tyler, Mary Elizabeth “Bessie,” 23–24, 48
U
Ukraine, 107, 127
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 19
Underwood, Oscar, 174
uniforms. See costumes
Union Army, 5, 7–10, 37–38, 210, 239, 344
Universal Negro Improvement Association, 227
US Congress, 19, 118, 338
anti-immigration act passed by, 170–72, 255
anti-immigration forces in, 106
and anti-lynching law, 15, 163, 353
Anti-Saloon League’s power over, 53
and Civil Rights Act of 1866, 8
deciding 1876 presidency, 18
and eugenics, 105, 106, 110
investigating Klan violence, 33–34
and Jews fleeing Europe, 107
Klansmen elected to, xvi, 47, 130, 227
Klansmen running for, 25–26
Stephenson’s candidates for, 47
See also US House of Representatives; US Senate
US Constitution, 76, 164
15th Amendment to, 9, 132, 178
18th Amendment to, 52, 178
amendments to, 9, 19, 47, 118, 219, 347
and Klan, 47, 80, 146
Lincoln seeking expansion of, 8–9
and removing rights, 47, 52
Stephenson on, 117–18, 146
US House of Representatives, xvi, 9, 171, 246
US military, 346
US Senate, 9
anti-immigrant sentiment in, 43, 171
anti-Klan forces in, 174
investigating Klan corruption, 233
Klan-backed candidates for, 43–44, 130, 180–81
Klan members of, xvi, 17, 246, 339
national Klan and, 227
and National Origins Act of 1924, 171
and Stephenson, 43–44, 124, 244, 345
US Supreme Court, xvii, 19, 117–18, 328, 346–47
US Treasury Department, 133, 174, 248
USS Tennessee, xvi
V
Valentino, Rudy, 107
Valparaiso, Indiana, 97–98
Valparaiso University, xxiii, 96–99, 128, 156
Van Loon, Oren, 128
Vendome Hotel (Evansville, Indiana), 13, 24, 27–28, 64
vigilantes
in Indiana, xvii, 30, 347
and Klan parades, 71
lawfully deputized, 30
lynchings of, 15, 59, 341–42
morality patrols of, 32–34
not punished for crimes, 39, 130
praise of, 117
press on, 84–85
of Stephenson, xvii, 39–40, 78
See also Horse Thief Detective Association; mob violence
Virginia, 51, 86, 185
Vonnegut, Kurt, 57–58
voting rights, xvii, 6, 9, 18–19, 52–53, 132, 178, 181. See also Black suffrage
W
Walb, Clyde A., 332
Walgreen, Charles, 188
Walker, Clifford, xviii
Walker, Madam C. J., 73–74
Walsh, Matthew J., 156, 158–59, 161
Walton, John C., 130
Warvel, J. H., 287
Washington, Booker T., 73
Washington, DC, 81, 98, 185
The Birth of a Nation shown in, 20, 37
Klan headquarters in, 181, 245–46
Klan lacking political force in, 341
Klan parades in, 247–55, 334
Klan’s political clout in, 227, 245
workforce segregated in, 20
Washington, George, 58
Washington Hotel (Indianapolis), 62, 189, 192, 229–30, 297–99
Washington Post, 248
Washington state, 169, 175–76
Watson, James “Sunny Jim,” 125–26, 172, 183, 244
weapons, 32, 93, 337
West and West Coast, 6, 34, 49, 66, 130, 176, 244. See also Northwest Coast
whippings, 3, 5, 16, 33, 43, 77, 99, 130, 338
White, William Allen, 329
White House, xiv, xviii, 18, 20, 98, 125, 172, 345
white supremacy, 8, 353
Barr on, 53, 55
books about, 110
guiding principle of Klan, 22–23, 31
Imperial Wizard on, 23, 33
and Klan membership, 35, 132, 267
Klan newspaper articles on, xviii
and Klan parades, 71
Klan pledges to, 297, 345
Klanswomen and, 334
and rally signs, 238
Stephenson’s article on, 88–89
upheld by Klan, xiv, 91, 254, 267
White Supremacy League, 75
“Why We Wear the Hood” (Klan manual), 79
Willard Hotel (Washington, DC), 98, 249
Willson, Ellis O., 328
Wilson, William E., 32, 162, 181
Wilson, Woodrow, 19–21, 133, 163, 174
Wisconsin, 42, 66, 89, 351
womanhood, protection of, 17, 31, 50, 114, 264–65
World War I. See Great War
World War II, 346
Wright “Bone Dry” Law, 187–88, 347
Wrigley, William, Jr., 157
X
X-Ray (newspaper), 351
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About the Author
Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and the author of nine other books, most recently the highly acclaimed A Pilgrimage to Eternity and The Immortal Irishman, a New York Times bestseller. His book on the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time, won a National Book Award for Excellence in Nonfiction. His account of photographer Edward Curtis, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, won the Carnegie Medal for nonfiction.
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