Wednesday, October 16, 6:30 PM
At Christ Church Cathedral
EquaSion is sponsoring on October 16th, 6:30 pm at Christ Church Cathedral (318 E. Fourth Street) a presentation on the KKK in Ohio in the 1920’s by Dr. William Trollinger.
Having virtually disappeared in the late nineteenth century, the Ku Klux Klan exploded onto the national in the early 1920’s. This “second” KKK had an expanded list of social scapegoats that included newly-arrived immigrants, many of whom were Jews and Catholics. While the original Klan was based primarily in the South, the second Klan had its greatest numerical strength in the West and Midwest. Ohio may have had more KKK members than any other state in the Union. The legacy of the KKK is still with us in the form of new white Christian nationalist groups with an outsized digital presence. A century after the peak of the Second Ku Klux Klan, and it is still not clear who is winning the argument over what it means to be an American.
Dr. William Vance Trollinger, Jr. is Professor of History in the History and Religious Studies Departments at the University of Dayton, and directs PREVENTS-OH, a grant project through the Department of Homeland Security to prevent radicalization to extremist violence in Southwest Ohio. His research interests include U.S. evangelicalism and fundamentalism, Protestant print culture, creationism, the Christian Right, and the Ku Klux Klan.
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