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Token Commemorating the California Visit of KKK Imperial Wizard, Hiram W. Evans, circa 1930
1925/1935
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
The Ku Klux Klan was reborn in the late 1910s, flourished, but began to decline in the mid 1920s. It never completely disappeared, however. This token from about 1930 commemorates the visit of the Klan's Imperial Wizard to California. The innocuous phrases and symbols belie the hatred, vigilantism, and violence found under the hood of the Klan.
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- Title: Token Commemorating the California Visit of KKK Imperial Wizard, Hiram W. Evans, circa 1930
- Date Created: 1925/1935
- Location: United States, California
- Subject Keywords: Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), Medals, Evans, H. W. (Hiram Wesley), 1881-1966, Hate groups, Race discrimination, White supremacy movements
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: http://collections.thehenryford.org/Collection.aspx?objectKey=344637
- Object Name: Medal
- Object ID: 2005.16.71
- Image ID: THF8592
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
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