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Birth of a Nation poster By Finn J.D. John There was something shockingly sudden about the Ku Klux Klan’s virtual seizure of the reins of power in Oregon in 1922. Within a few months of Klan evangelist Luther Powell’s arrival in southern Oregon, the “invisible empire” had spread through Oregon society like a virus. Tens of thousands of Oregonians had paid their $10 membership fee and had white eyehole-suits hanging in their closets, and tens of thousands more looked upon the secret society as a positive thing. It’s important to understan...
McKenzie River Reflections...