Though I had history courses in elementary school, high school and was a history major in college I was never taught this. What? The Ku Klux Klan in South Dakota, ala the title of Arley Kenneth Fadness' book,.published this year. The book extensively documented with newspaper articles tells the story of the spread and influence of the Klan in South Dakota during the 1920s. A major rallying point of the Klan was anti-Catholicism. It lead to the 1921 murder of popular Catholic priest, Bartholomew Belknap in Lead, SD.
Fadness documents the spread of the Klan throughout S.D., often in cooperation with Protestant clergy. The book is a helpful addition to Timothy Egan's A Fever In The Heartland, focused on Indiana and the Klan's effort to take over America. Read them both.
Takk for alt,
Al
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