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William J. Simmons. William Joseph Simmons ( Harpersville, 1880– Atlanta, 18 de mayo de 1945) fue el fundador del segundo Ku Klux Klan, en 1915. Simmons participó en la Guerra Hispano-Estadounidense, y estudió medicina en la Universidad Johns Hopkins.
William Joseph Simmons (May 7, 1880 – May 18, 1945) was an American preacher and fraternal organizer who founded and led the second Ku Klux Klan from Thanksgiving evening 1915 until being ousted in 1922 by Hiram Wesley Evans.
William J. Simmons, a preacher and promoter of fraternal orders who had been inspired by Thomas Dixon’s book The Clansman (1905) and D.W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation (1915). The new organization remained small until Edward Y. Clarke and Elizabeth Tyler brought to…
William J. Simmons (June 29, 1849 – October 30, 1890) was an American Baptist pastor, educator, author, and activist. He was a former enslaved person who became the second president of Simmons College of Kentucky (1880–1890), for whom the school was later named.
10 de abr. de 2018 · In 1915, Methodist preacher William Joseph Simmons led a group of white men up Stone Mountain in Georgia to burn a cross. The Klan, he declared, was born again.
William Joseph Simmons fue el fundador del segundo Ku Klux Klan, en 1915. Simmons participó en la Guerra Hispano-Estadounidense, y estudió medicina en la Universidad Johns Hopkins. Afiliado a la iglesia Metodista Episcopal, predicó hasta que fue expulsado en 1912.
16 de feb. de 2011 · Learn about William J. Simmons, a former slave who became a prominent historian and the second president of Simmons College of Kentucky. He wrote Men of Mark, a collection of 177 African American biographies, and served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
