![]() ![]() The Klan also gained ground by recruiting a large number of ministers who brought evangelical fervor to its message of white Protestant superiority. The organization also sold products from life insurance policies to memorabilia, including a “Kluxer’s Knifty Knife” and a ladies’ brooch with a “zircon-studded Fiery Cross.” Ads for the items appeared in newspapers across the country. Klan leaders operated a recording company and a real estate firm, and manufactured authentic Klan apparel. New members paid high initiation fees and annual dues that brought into the Klan coffers as much as $25 million annually - the equivalent of roughly $342 million today. Klan leaders championed the common man, but the organization was, first and foremost, a lucrative business with the profits flowing to the top. The Second Coming of the KKK By Linda Gordon Book description Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordons disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. ![]() Gordon catalogues the many contradictions, the hypocrisy and the shady but effective strategies that strikingly mirror the playbook of some in the conservative movement today. ![]()
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