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CONTACTS
Imperial Wizard: impwizard1996@gmail.com
Imperial Klaliff: roninelwood@yahoo.com
Imperial Kludd/Director Of Degrees: imperial_kludd@hotmail.comImperial Kleagle: impkleagle@yahoo.com
Alabama Grand Dragon: grandklaliffofal@yahoo.com
Georgia Grand Dragon: weaverfamily3@yahoo.com
Ohio Grand Dragon: granddragon033@yahoo.com
Arkansas Kleagle: akia.kenneth@yahoo.com
Alabama Klaliff: jett35217@hotmail.com
To show that we don't tolerate any violence are rubbish from klansmen or nonklansmen, we will be deploying a banishment list.
1. Barry Black Banished 2007
2. J.B. Yates Banished 2011
Prominent Men Who Joined The Ku Klux Klan
Contrary to modern myth the KKK was never a bunch of ignorant racists. Many sophisticated famous, prominent, and historically significant men joined the Ku Klux Klan and became its leaders. Photos of all of them are not available.
Some of the prominent men who were members of the original KKK were: General Robert E. Lee (whose statement: "My support for your organization must remain completely invisible." inspired the Klan's nickname: "Invisible Empire."), General John C. Brown, Captain John W. Morton (who became Secretary of State of Tennessee), Ryland Randolph (editor of the Independent Monitor), General George W. Gordon, General John B. Gordon (Grand Dragon of Georgia and author of the Prescripts of the KKK), General W.J. Hardee (author of many of the warnings and oaths of the KKK), Colonel Joseph Fussell, General Albert Pike (chief judicial officer of the original KKK and a major figure in Scottish Rite Masonry), and Edward White (Supreme Court Justice under the Wilson administration, he was a member of the original KKK), Air Force General Nathan Bedford Forrest III (Grandson of Grand Wizard Forrest and Grand Dragon of Georgia for the revival Klan, he was killed by the nazis during World War II).
Gen. W.J. Hardee Ryland Randolph Gen. Albert Pike
Gen. John B. Gordon Gen. Robert E. Lee President Calvin Coolidge
President Warren G. Harding President Harry S. Truman Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black
Supreme Justice Edward White Senator Robert Byrd
Other notable men were: President Warren G. Harding. He was sworn into the Ku Klux Klan in the Green Room of the White House by Imperial Wizard Simmons.
President Woodrow Wilson and President McKinley. Little is known of their Klan membership. I have one book that only mentions they were members, but that's all. McKinley was a Union officer, but many Union men joined or affiliated with the original Klan during the Radical Republican's anti-white Reconstruction Era. Wilson would have been a member of the Klan under Simmons.
President Calvin Coolidge. He allowed cross lightings on the Capitol steps and reviewed the giant Klan parades of 1925 & 26. Go to the Various Activities section of the Klan in the Historical Information section of this web page to see a photo of President Cooledge marching along side Imperial Wizard Evans if the big 1925 Washington, D.C. parade.
President Harry S. Truman was a minor ordinary Klansman from 1920-22. His membership was not notable. He later had a major falling out with the KKK over his desire to appoint Catholics to key political positions; something the KKK opposed at the time. He severed all ties with the KKK and openly repudiated them. They didn't call him, "give 'em Hell Harry", for nothing. His family has tired to deny his KKK membership ever since.
Supreme Court Justice, Hugo Black, his robes (with his name in them) were found in an old Klan Hall in the 1960's. Under political pressure, he superficially repudiated the Klan during its period of scandals.
Senator Robert Byrd, West Virginia, Democrat, was a Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops as a young man. He spoke favorably of the Klan during his political career
Photo above: The Supreme Court, 1937. The man in the Klan robe was Justice Van Devanter, who was soon to retire from the Court. The photo appeared in the New York Sun on Oct. 2, 1937.
Photos above left: Mt. Rushmore. Photo right: Gutzon Borglum
Gutzon Borglum, who carved Mt. Rushmore, Stone Mountain, and did work on the base of the Statue of Liberty was a prominent life member of the KKK. He sat on the Imperial Koncilium in 1923, which transferred leadership of the KKK from Col. Simmons to Hiram Evans. Under media pressure he superficially repudiated the KKK.
