Decline
It was about ten years ago that an organization was founded in the name of the old secret society of reconstruction days, the Ku Klux Klan. It spread through the South and Southwest, burst across Mason and Dixon's line into Indiana, spread eastward to New England, made some progress in the Middle West and gained a few footholds in the Far West.
In many states it became a political bogey. The peak of its power, it appears, came in about 1923. Soon, however, it began to disintegrate; scandal...
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