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Hiram Wesley Evans (September 26, 1881 – September 14, 1966) was the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, an American white supremacist group, from 1922 to his resignation in 1939.
1 de ene. de 1995 · Learn about the life and career of Hiram Wesley Evans, the "imperial wizard" of the Ku Klux Klan from 1922 to 1939. Find out how he rose to power, wrote books, and faced legal troubles.
A primary source document by the Imperial Wizard of the Second Ku Klux Klan, who advocated for white supremacy, Protestantism, and patriotism as the core values of Americanism. The web page also provides historical context and links to related sources on the Klan and its impact.
Hiram Wesley Evans (September 26, 1881 – September 14, 1966) was the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, an American white supremacist group, from 1922 to his resignation in 1939.
Hiram Wesley Evans, The Klan's Fight for Americanism, The North American Review, Vol. 223, No. 830 (Mar. - May, 1926), pp. 33-63.
Historian Richard Hofstadter once described an essay by Imperial Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans as “not immoderate in tone.” Evans oriented that essay in the defense of Americanism, a frequent theme in his writing. Among the central tenets of Evans’s Americanism was a devotion to Protestantism.
This essay argues. that leader Hiram Evans tried to use educational reform as the pri. mary issue with which to cement the Klan's status as a mainstream political organization. Evans hoped to promote educational reform as the cure for the long list of social ills that exercised Klan members.
