At one time 1 out of every 3 white men in Dallas were in the KKK.Im wondering should i make the thread on DALLAS' racist history of lynching and hangings
When Dallas Was the Most Racist City in America - D Magazine
And in no other city did the Klan find a readier reception than in Dallas. First organized in late 1920, Dallas Klan No. 66 grew within four years into what its members called the largest chapter in the world. The Klan found receptive recruiting grounds among fraternal organizations, law-enforcement personnel, small businessmen, and Protestant churchmen, especially those with a more fundamentalist outlook. Led at first by a Dallas dentist with remarkable organizing skills named Hiram Wesley Evans, the organization reportedly reached a membership of 13,000 in a city of 160,000 population, the highest per capita of any city in the nation. After discounting ineligible groups such as women, children, and minorities, the membership presumably represented about one out of three eligible men in Dallas.
The power of the Klan in Dallas extended far beyond mere popular acceptance. Dallas County voters placed Klan or Klan-supported candidates in control of the courthouse in 1922 and of City Hall in the following year. When the State Fair of Texas officially designated October 23, 1923, as Ku Klux Klan Day, a huge crowd from across the nation showed up. Two successive district attorneys were Klansmen (although one of them, Maury Hughes, resigned in disgust from the Klan during his term), as were the sheriff, the police commissioner, the police chief, judges, and others. Doctors, lawyers, bankers, public utility executives, ministers, businessmen, and journalists were also Klansmen. Four of the Klan’s Executive Committee of Ten and at least 20 of its Steering Committee of One Hundred were members of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce.