Klan specialist recounts
history of Oregon KKK
By MIKE RUST
Of the Eifierald
There was something a bit unusual about the
featured speaker at the Wesley Center chapel
Tuesday night — he began his presentation
wearing vintage 1920s robes of the Tillamook
County Ku Klux Klan.
Eckhard Toy, an "occasional” member of the
University history department and a specialist on
right-wing extremism, elicited audience response
to the robes at the beginning of his talk, which was
sponsored by Hillel, the national Jewish student
group.
He then presented a synopsis of the Klan
from its beginnings in the Reconstruction-era
South through its present incarnations.
Included in this history was an account of
Klan activities in Oregon., During the early 1920s,
one out of every eight Oregon white males over
the age of 18 was a KKK member, Toy estimated.
Toy spoke on the dangers of excess
emotionalism.
"It is a danger, but we have to try as best we
can to put the danger in the proper perspective,"
he said.
Toy disputed the view expressed by Attorney
General David Frohnmayer in a recent University
forum that during the 1920s, the Legislature
was "entirely dominated" by the Klan.
Rather, Toy said, the Legislature was dom
inated by by the Republican Party, which in turn
had many members who shared the WASPish
prejucices held by the Klan.
The Klan’s political influence in Oregon
reached its peak during the years of 1922 to 1924,
Toy said. In 1922, Oregon voters approved a
referendum, originally proposed by Scottish-rite
Masons and supported by the Klan, that would
Photo by Erich Boekelheide
Eckhard Toy donned Klan robes to illustrate his
speech on KKK history.
have closed all parochial and private schools in
the state. The U S. Supreme Court ruled it un
constitutional three years later.
However, as in most states during the 1920s.
the Klan eventually foundered because of internal
dissension, Toy said.
Food Faire to continue
Today’s events at the Food
Education Conference and
Faire feature David Kinley
speaking about the politics of
food.
Kinley is a co-worker of
Frances Moore Lappe and Jo
seph Collins at the Institute for
Food and Development Policy
in San Francisco, which is well
known for its work in interna
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Marilyn Ferguson, author of
“The Aquarian Conspiracy:
Personal and Social Transfora
tion in the 1980s” is the featured
speaker at a symposium Thurs
day sponsored by the Lane
Education Service District.
The symposium will feature
speakers in anthropolgy,
science, technology, world
politics, psychology and
sociology who will address the
question '“What's the world
coming to?"
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He is author of a book on
foreign aid, “Aid as Obstacle,”
and is a contributor to "Food
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At the Institute, Kinley has
studied the impact of U S.
government-funded aid pro
grams in the Third World.
Kinley will speak at 8 p.m. in
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Beginning today’s confer
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how the Third World is affected
by the global supermarket, the
dangers of U S. farming tech
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Farming is the topic of a 12:30 to
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a slide presentation on Chinese
organic agriculture.
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