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The KKK in Colorado
Imagine a Colorado in which a U. ... During the 1920s, Colorado had the largest and most influential Knights of the Ku Klux Klan following of any other state west of the Mississippi River. ...
Why did the KKK rise into Denver’s society? ...
The KKK arrived In Denver and other parts of Colorado
The Klan arrived in Colorado when a man named William Joseph Simmons stepped off a train at Denver’s Union Station in 1921. ... But few Klan’s were as well organized and powerful as in Colorado, where people from all around would pay a $10 initiation fee and another $15 for a white hood and robe. “The Klan converted Colorado into one of the Invisible Empire’s strongest realms,” said University of Utah history professor Robert Goldberg, who wrote Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado.
Colorado’s 55,000 Klan members set up divisions in Pueblo, Colorado springs, Boulder, Grand Junction and Canon City. ... “They (Klan leaders) were very smart, and they knew how to come off as a very appealing social group,” said Richard Delgado, a university of Colorado law professor who co-authored a study on racism in Colorado. ...
The violence of the KKK
On July 7, 1921, a bomb exploded in Walter Chapman’s front yard. ... Because there were such big numbers of Colorado’s Roman Catholics they dealt with the Klan hatred. KKK businesses sold cigars labeled “CYANA”, an acronym for Catholics, You Are Not Americans. ...
The people in the KKK
John Galen Locke, a Denver doctor, had been among the Klan’s early members. ... Yet, within a few years, John Galen Locke would own the Governor of the State of Colorado, the Mayor of Denver, and run the state. ... The history of the Klan in Colorado is not one of violence, but of politics. ... The Klan in Colorado was impossibility. ...
The ending to the KKK
Stapleton was not happy under Locke’s rule. In November of 1924, he and other Klan members tried to set up a paper Klan while passing a law banning Locke from Colorado.
Approximate Word count = 1691
Approximate Pages = 6.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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