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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2017
Library
Tidings
News about
the Siuslaw
Public Library
Library Tidings,
a regular feature
of the Siuslaw
News, features
news about
upcoming
Siuslaw Public
Library programs
for adults and
children, new
books and
videos, and other
library news of
interest to the
community.
Library Tidings by
Kevin Mittge
Book Review
The Second Coming
of the KKK
By Linda Gordon
A new Ku Klux Klan arose
in the 1920s, a less violent but
equally virulent descendant of
the relatively small, terrorist
Klan of the 1870s. Unknown to
most Americans today, this
“second Klan” largely flour-
ished above the Mason-Dixon
line — its army of four-to-six
million members spanning the
continent from New Jersey to
Oregon, its ideology of intoler-
ance shaping the course of
mainstream national politics
throughout the 20th century.
As prize-winning historian
Linda Gordon demonstrates,
the second Klan’s enemies
included Catholics and Jews as
well as African Americans. Its
bigotry differed in intensity but
not in kind from that of mil-
lions of others WASP
Americans. Its membership,
limited to white Protestant
native-born citizens, was
entirely respectable, drawn
from small businesspeople,
farmers, craftsmen and profes-
sionals, and at least half a mil-
lion were women.
For many Klanspeople,
membership simultaneously
reflected a protest against an
increasingly urban society and
provided an entrée into the new
middle class.
Never secret, this Klan
recruited openly, through
newspaper ads, in churches,
and through extravagant mass
“Americanism”
pageants,
often held on Independence
Day. These “Klonvocations”
drew tens of thousands and
featured fireworks, airplane
stunts, children’s games and
women’s bake-offs — and of
course, cross-burnings.
The Klan even controlled
about one hundred and fifty
newspapers, as well as the
Cavalier Motion Picture
Company, dedicated to coun-
tering Hollywood’s “immoral”
and Jewish-influence. The
Klan became a major political
force, electing thousands to
state offices and over one hun-
dred to national offices, while
successfully lobbying for the
anti-immigration
Reed-
Johnson Act of 1924.
The Klan’s collapse in 1926
was no less flamboyant, done
in by its leaders’ financial and
sexual corruption, culminating
in the conviction of Grand
Dragon David Stephenson for
raping and murdering his sec-
retary, and chewing up parts of
her body.
Yet the Klan’s brilliant
melding of Christian values
with racial bigotry last long
after the organization’s decline,
intensifying a fear of diversity
that has long been a dominant
undercurrent of American his-
tory.
Documenting what became
the largest social movement of
the first half of he twentieth
century, “The Second Coming
of the KKK” exposes the
ancestry and helps explains the
dangerous appeal of today’s
welter of intolerance.
Holiday cards available
Need a beautiful card to give
to someone? The Friends of the
Library (FOL) have made
close to 100 cards for sale this
holiday season and they will be
available for purchase at the
library from Dec. 1st until New
Year’s. The FOL have been
making cards since 2007 and
their November card making
workshop was their 53rd. The
cards are $2 for small cards and
$3 for large cards. All the cards
are beautiful handcrafted
works of art.
Peace Harbor Hospital
gift shop seeks volunters
The gift shop at Peace
Harbor is in need of volun-
teers. The shop, which is run
completely by volunteers and
open five days a week from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m., is under the
direction of Jean Ryland.
PHPH volunteers work
three-hour shifts and opportu-
nities are open for a variety of
days and hours.
Proceeds earned in the gift
shop are a major source of
income for volunteer pro-
grams, and enabling the group
to make donations in various
areas of the hospital.
With the holiday season
underway, the gift shop is
stocked with many holiday
items including tree orna-
ments, decorations, handmade
items and many more unique
gift items.
Anyone interested in volun-
teering their time in the gift
shop can contact Jean Ryland
in the gift shop.
Applications to volunteer
can be obtained at the front
lobby desk or in the gift shop
itself.
Fri-Sat
12/8-12/9,
9am-3pm,
2nd & Ivy,
Tools, & lots of misc. Fun Stuff!
Gingerbread Houses
Don’t miss your opportunity
to decorate a gingerbread
house on Saturday, Dec. 9,
from 10 a.m. to noon in the
library’s Bromley Room.
A very popular program,
families are invited to bring
kids of all ages for this ginger-
bread house decorating extrav-
aganza.
Supplies will be provided.
Children under the age of 8
must be accompanied by an
adult.
Fri-Sat
12/8-12/9,
9am-5pm,
¼mi. N of Fred Meyer,
87637 Hwy 101, look for signs.
100s of new items, bicycles,
die-cast cars, new & used items.
FREE
garage sale signs
541-997-3441
with your ad
We invite
you to
join us.
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