35th Annual Local History Series -- The Ku Klux Klan in the Fox River Valley

Program Type:

History & Genealogy

Age Group:

Adults
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In the mid-1920s the Ku Klux Klan was recruiting in the area from Oshkosh and to the north, including Brown County.  The reality is the Ku Klux Klan had more than one focus of un-American ideas, problems were; Catholics, violation of the Volstead Act (prohibition), and immigrant population.  In Wisconsin the immigrant population was a problem for the Klan, however a majority of the population of Wisconsin was just a generation or two from being an immigrant.  Learn how the KKK influence, although small, rose and fell in Northeast Wisconsin.

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Michael D. Jacobs is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.  He earned his PhD in history from Marquette University in 2001 and has been working in the UW-System since.  His principal research interest focuses on American intolerance movements, especially white supremacy and anti-Catholicism.