Inside the Klavern: The Secret History of a Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s

by David A. Horowitz

Book Overview

Inside the Klavern is an annotated collection of the minutes of a thriving Ku Klux Klan in La Grande, Oregon, between 1922 and 1924. The most complete set of Klan minutes ever uncovered, these documents illustrate the inner workings of a Klan chapter of more than three hundred members at a time when the national membership reached into the millions and the Invisible Empire was at the peak of its power. Through an extensive introduction and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080932248X
• ISBN13: 9780809322480
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A staple for Klan scholars anywhere

David Horowitz has provided the scholarly community focusing of the Ku Klux Klan with an incredbily useful tool; the actual minutes from a Klan in La Grande, Oregon. With his brilliantly edited volume, Horowitz provides interesting insights into Klan functions, dress, politics, commerce and attitudes as told by Kligrapp Harold Fosner. What is more amazing though is that these records have survived, and through Horowitz's dilligence, they have been recovered from the Oregon Historical Society and made available by Southern Illinois Univeristy press. The historigraphy of Klan study has been altered greatly thanks to Horowiz's work, as speculation in past work can be either confirmed or refuted by examining Inside the Klavern, if in fact the La Grande Klan is a true representation of small town Klans nationally. A terrific read for all.