What I’m Reading: The Second Coming of the KKK – 60 in a series – The Klan gave one of its largest donations to the Rev. Bob Jones…”

“The Klan gave one of its largest donations—$1,568 (worth $22,500 in 2016)—to the Rev. Bob Jones, to help him establish his conservative whites-only Bob Jones University.42 (The university grew out of Jones’s distress after his friend William Jennings Bryan was so humiliated in the Scopes trial.)”

The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition by Linda Gordon

What I'm Reading: The Second Coming of the KKK - 1 in a series

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