The Ku Klux Klan in Minnesota - Hardcover

Minnesota might not seem like an obvious place to look for traces of Ku Klux Klan parade grounds, but this northern state was once home to fifty-one chapters of the KKK. Elizabeth Hatle tracks down the history of the Klan in Minnesota, beginning with the racially charged atmosphere that produced the tragic 1920 Duluth lynchings. She measures the influence the organization wielded at the peak of its prominence within state politics and tenaciously follows the careers of the Klansmen who continued life in the public sphere after the Hooded Order lost its foothold in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes.

Elizabeth Dorsey Hatle is a high school history teacher in the Minneapolis school district and a graduate of the University of Minnesota. Her work on the Ku Klux Klan has appeared in Minnesota History magazine.