The majority of the study of the Ku Klux Klan tends to focus on regions considered to be a part of the "Deep South". Traditionally, Florida is not considered to be a part of this region because of its reputation as a tropical, tourist destination. However, Florida shares many commonalities with the "Deep South" states; including the long established presence of the Ku Klux Klan within its borders. However, little is known about the full extent of Klan activity in Florida due to the secrecy of the organization. Nevertheless, the few documents that do exist concerning the Ku Klux Klan in Florida confirm that the organization was a prevalent force in the state's history. This study explores the Ku Klux Klan and their policing of the white community in Orange County, Florida post World War II The Ku Klux Klan is commonly known as a white supremacist organization that primarily targets non-white victims. However, the Ku Klux Klan also regulated Euro-Americans in Orange County based on principals of religion and morality. The history of the Ku Klux Klan explains why the organization targeted certain groups within society. The majority of the official records concerning the Klan's regulation of the white community in Orange County are limited to the FBI investigation of the death of Harry T. Moore in 1951. It is important to understand that the Ku Klux Klan is an integral part in the history of Central Florida despite the fact that Florida is not considered to be a part of the "Deep South". The presence of the Ku Klux Klan affected all members of the community. Realizing the role of the Ku Klux Klan in Central Florida post World War II helps to better understand that Florida, at one time, was a part of the ''Deep South".

Theses (M.A.)--Marshall University, 2007. / Title from document title page. Includes abstract. Document formatted into pages: contains v, 116 pages including illustrations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-116).

It is hypothesized that Rex Hopper's model for the development of a South American political revolution will apply equally to the development of a social movement which is not a South American political revolution, namely, the Ku Klux Klan. The general purpose of this study was to test the generalizability of Hopper's model.

Since the proliferation of Trumpism in American politics there has been newfound interest in Ku Klux Klan related studies. Scholars have turned to the rise of the “Invisible Empire” in the 1920s, and the massive political influence it yielded nationwide, to better understand and contextualize the MAGA Movement of Republicans currently dominating their own party, and American politics more broadly. This dissertation focuses on the rise of the Ku Klux Klan as a dominant force in Indiana politics throughout the 1920s. Indiana boasted one of the largest Klan groups at the time, and it was seen in popular culture as a model for what personified “real” America, and who personified “real” Americans. Unlike its southern chapters who dominated their state’s Democratic Party, the Indiana Klan engulfed the G.O.P., and created a massive Republican political machine, fueled in large part by stoking the reactionary sentiments white Protestant Americans felt towards immigrants, Catholics, African Americans, and the various forces of change at the center of the nation’s newfound modernization. This dissertation examines the rise and fall of the Ku Klux Klan as the most dominant, and most corrupt political power in Indiana from 1920-1929. It illustrates the profound grift and graft taking place as Klansmen and their allies gained control of the Indiana Republican Party, then the state government and several municipalities. Notorious Indiana Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, D. C. Stephenson was a central figure in the Klan’s success and studies have correctly situated him as a king-like figure in the making of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana and beyond. This has led to a depiction of the Invisible Empire as being intrinsically linked to Stephenson. When the Klan leader was convicted of raping and murdering a young woman at the height of both his, and the organization’s reign, scholars have tended to depict it as the end of the Klan as well. That as went Stephenson, so did the Ku Klux Klan. The reality is that the Klan had already engulfed the state’s bureaucracy, and other opportunistic Klansmen had quickly filled the void created by Stephenson’s demise. As demonstrated in the following chapters, it was principled Indiana Republicans who engaged in the political and legal campaigns that ultimately removed the Klan from Indiana politics and government. Anti-Klan forces largely denounced the hooded order on the grounds that it was a corrupt super-government, and its members were involved in widespread graft at all levels. This dissertation also illustrates the connections between Ku Klux Klan and the state’s powerful radical Prohibition forces in the Indiana Anti-Saloon League. Their membership often overlapped, and many of those who preached Prohibition during the day adorned white hoods throughout the night. Just as much as D. C. Stephenson, the rise and fall of Prohibition was linked to Indiana Ku Klux Klan’s reign in mainstream politics and government.

Thesis (M.A.I.S.)--Oregon State University, 1997. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-86). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2008. / Department of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Kevin C. Robbins. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-137).

The American movie industry did not have to develop into the Hollywood dream factory. There were educative, religious, explicitly political, and other non-commercial alternative arrangements to America’s film industry. These alternatives, along with principles such as film free speech and movie propaganda, had to be cast aside by the emerging moguls of Hollywood. Conflicts with the vanquished liquor industries, moral and economic regulatory concerns, Republican Party politics, and the resurgent Klan all shaped the classic Hollywood system from 1906 to 1927, a 20-year period in which the American film industry depoliticized the Hollywood movie screen, shedding its democratic and propagandistic definitions for the politics of publicity and entertainment as a service to Americans. Developments in this infant industry also shaped the broader trajectory of American consumer capitalism toward big producer control and the self-regulation of the industry’s social effects.

The Ku Klux Klan was a major force in American political and social life throughout the better part of the nineteen-twenties. This study examines the Klan, its growth, role, and demise with respect to the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It is largely the story of the Klans failure to develop successfully as it was inhibited by local political factors throughout the Commonwealth.

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This thesis has traces the legal encounters of a crusading newspaper editor by the name of George R. Dale in Muncie, Indiana, during the 1920's. The influence a revived Ku Klux Klan had upon the local courts was explored in detail. This study explored in depth the legal harassment suffered by one who challenged Klan supremacy in Indiana.Local court records were diligently researched in an attempt to properly analyze the charges of criminal libel, carrying a concealed weapon, violating the liquor laws held against the independent editor in the local circuit court. In addition, the work dealt specifically with the contempt citations received by the fiery newspaperman while defending the above mentioned charges. Moreover, the costly and tortuous course of appeal was discussed as most of these proceedings were appealed to the Indiana and United States Supreme Courts.Moreover, the latter portion of the paper attempts to predict the changes that might result in our Anglo-American system of jurisprudence as a result of this series of cases.