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 […]
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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 […]
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