Was the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920's an Extremist Movement? Yes: David H. Bennett I- The 1920's Klan II- Women in the Klan III- David C. Stephenson Between June of 1920 through October of 1921, it is estimated at much as 85,000 men joined the Ku Klux Klan. Although the Klan was the strongest in the midwest and the midsouth, it was a nation wide epidemic. Klan members fed off of Xenophobic, a fear of foreigners. Klan members believed that every Catholic in public life, no matter what position they held in society, must be watched carefully. "The modern Klan added an anti-Semitic element."" Klan theoreticians believed that the Jews were not only unproductive, there were also un-American. "Jew Movies Urge Sex and Vice,"" the Klan title screamed like an echo from Ford's Dearborn Independent. The position of woman in the humanities of the Klan was expressly conventional. The Klan believed in protection of women because they thought women could help in the "shaping of America-. Even tho!.
ugh they believed so strongly in woman protection, this came at a costly price: violence. Although the victims of the "masked nightriders- were often men, the enemies of "pure womanhood- were both men and women. The women were refereed to as "fallen women-. Outsiders were a threat to traditional American values David C. Stephenson was a very highly regarded men for his grouping competence, gossip of multitudinous sexual thoughtlessness and inebriating parties quickly led to controversy in association the government and domestic Klan dominator. Madge Oberholtzer affirmed that Stephenson forced her to drink with him, ultimately demanding her at gunpoint to a train. In the confidential department he attacked her and sexually raped her. After this incident, she took a catastrophic overdose of drugs, dying a few weeks later. She had time to recite the complete incident to the prosecuting attorney, one of the infrequent officials Stephenson could not command in Marion County.
