Ku Klux Klan has had a history in the state of New Jersey USA since the early 1920s. The clan was active in the Trenton and Camden areas and had presence in several northern states of the country in the 1920s. It has the most members in Monmouth County, and operates a resort in Wall Township.
Video History of the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey
History
The first local chapter of KKK in New Jersey was held in 1921, after the unit began in New York and Pennsylvania. Arthur Hornbui Bell was the country's first Grand Dragon, and continued to serve at the post until the Ku Klux Klan was dissolved in 1944.
In early 1922, the New Jersey Clan protested Paterson, New York's honorable congregation of Roman Catholic priest William N. McNulty, who closed the school during his funeral. They argue it is a violation of the doctrine of US law concerning the separation of church and state. Mayor Frank J. Van Noort commands a reverence for a respected dean of a large church.
In 1922, George W. Apgar was King of Kleagle, with headquarters outside Newark.
In 1923, the Clans donated funds to the Church Fire Pillars to establish Alma White College in Zarephath, New Jersey. It became "the second institution in the north run by the Ku Klux Klan to advance its goals and principles." Alma White said that Clan's philosophy "will sweep through the intellectual student class as through the masses of the people." At that time, Pillar of Fire published the monthly pro-KKK periodic of The Good Citizen .
On May 3, 1923, about 12,000 people attended a Clan meeting in Bound Brook, New Jersey. Speakers held a meeting at the Pillars of Fire headquarters near Zarephath where angry mobs surrounded the church to inform them that they were not welcome.
On May 10, 1923 the Clan attacked a boy, accusing him of stealing $ 50 from his mother, Bessie Titus, in West Belmar, New Jersey.
On August 24, 1923 the Clan held a large meeting on a ten-hectare field of Freehold Turnpike in western Farmingdale, New Jersey. The Clan claims to have attracted members from Monmouth, Middlesex and Ocean County and inaugurated 1,700 members. 1,200 cars are said to be parked along the highway, in the driveway, and in every available space. Arthur Hornbui Bell opened the meeting before introducing the keynote speaker, dubbed Colonel Sherman from Atlanta, Georgia. Several inductees from Keyport, New Jersey were escorted to the event by the Clan of the borough.
In 1925, Alma White published the Ku Klux Klan In Prophecy in Zarephath at the Pillar of Fire Church. He writes: "The unrepentant Hebrews are everywhere among us today as a powerful Roman Catholic ally.... To think of our Hebrew friends with the millions of gold and silver that helped the Pope in his aspirations for the supremacy of the world, almost beyond understanding... The Jews in New York City openly boast that they have money and Rome power, and that if they decide to rule the city and state,... "
In 1926, Arthur Hornbui Bell led a group that transformed the former Marconi Station in the Sampingan City into a Klan resort. (The property was later acquired by The King's College, a divinity school, and later became Camp Evans.). The 396-acre resort (1.60 km 2 ) is open only to officials and members of the New Jersey Realm of the Clan.
In May 1926, the birth control lawyer, Margaret Sanger, once spoke at a meeting of the Klan women's chapter in Silver Lake, New Jersey. Sanger wrote in his 1938 autobiography that his speech was "one of the strangest experiences I have had in teaching."
New Jersey Ku Klux Klan held the Fourth of July celebration from July 3-5, 1926, in Long Branch, New Jersey, featuring the "Miss 100% America" ​​contest.
In 1926, Alma White published the Clan: Guardians of Liberty . He writes: "I believe in white supremacy."
In 1928, Alma White published Heroes of the Fire Cross . He wrote: "The Jews are as unrelenting as they were two thousand years ago."
In 1940, James A. Colescott dismissed Bell as head of the Clan in New Jersey. Bell is also vice president of the German American Bund. The expulsion comes from a joint meeting held by Bell between the Klan and the German-American Bund at Bund's Camp Nordlund, near Andover, New Jersey.
In 1943, Alma White of Pillar of Fire Church reprinted the pro-Klan essay and his lectures as the Guardians of Liberty.
In 1944 the national organization was closed by a tax lien by the Internal Revenue Service. Local chapters are closed during the following years.
Maps History of the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey
People
- Arthur Hornbui Bell is the Grand Dragon.
- Alma White is a local preacher who supports the Clans in her publications and sermons.
- Alton Milford Young, a minister and Grand Kaliff .
- George W. Apgar is King of the Kleagle.
Clerical-friendly church
Some New Jersey churches welcome the Klan:
- Pillar of Fire Church in Zarephath
- Third Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth
- The Grace Methodist Church at Kearny
- First Baptist Church in Bayonne
- Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church in Paterson
- The Episcopal Church of Grace Methodist in Newark
- The United Methodist Colonial Church in Oxford
References and notes
See also
- Ku Klux Clan in Inglewood, California
- Indiana Clan
- Tulsa race riot
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