During 2018, two posts were presented here which named several resources that are useful for further study of the Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania: The Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania – Some Sources of Information The Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania – More Sources of Information This post is part of the reporting on hate […]
Minersville, Schuylkill County, is adjacent to the area of study of the Civil War Research Project. No doubt though, what happened there was well known within the Lykens Valley area. The Pottsville Republican, of 30 June 1927, reported on a Ku Klux Klan event for the 4th of July – a parade of Klansmen in Minersville. […]
Few religious leaders spoke out against the Ku Klux Klan when it was at its height in the mid-1920s in the Lykens Valley area. One exception was the Rev. Dr. George W. Humphreys, who delivered a scathing sermon against the hooded order when he was the pastor of the Methodist Church at Shenandoah, Schuylkill County […]
The Rev. Dr. George W. Humphreys was one of the great religious voices of his generation. During the mid 1920s, at the time when the Ku Klux Klan was at its height in Central Pennsylvania, Rev. Humphreys, who was pastor of a Methodist congregation in Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, took a courageous stand against the Klan […]
This post will identify and review two additional, readily-available print sources of information on the Ku Klan Klan in Pennsylvania in the 20th Century. This 20th Century iteration of the Klan was a re-incarnation of the first Klan that came about after the Civil War to deny rights to Freedmen by using terror and intimidation. […]
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