WILLIAM JOSEPH SIMMONS
Founder of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and Emperor InvisibleEmpire
THE KLAN
UNMASKED
by
WILLIAM JOSEPH SIMMONS
Founder of
The Knights of The Ku Klux Klan
AND
Emperor of The Invisible Empire
PUBLISHED BY THE
Wm. E. THOMPSON PUBLISHING CO.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
COPYRIGHT, 1923
by
The Wm. E. Thompson
Publishing Company
Illustrations by J.A. Murdoch, Atlanta, Ga.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Chapter | Page | |
| Foreword: Why I Write a Book | 7 | |
| PART ONE | ||
| Organization and Methods | ||
| I. | The Klan Yesterday and To-day | 18 |
| II. | We Americans—A Vanishing People | 26 |
| III. | Fraternalism of The Klan | 38 |
| IV. | The Klanishness of The Klan | 46 |
| V. | Is The Klan Anti-Semitic? | 55 |
| VI. | Is The Klan Anti-Catholic? | 64 |
| VII. | The Terminology of The Klan | 79 |
| VIII. | Symbolism of The Klan | 87 |
| IX. | The Rendezvous | 97 |
| PART TWO | ||
| The Fading Hope of Democracy | ||