Ku Klux Klan Collection

Since the acquisition of materials from the estate of a Michigan Klan member in the 1970s, this collection has grown in size and quality. Most of the primary items in the collection date from the 1920s and 1930s, a period of growth in the Klan's history. Constitutions, installation ceremonies, advertisements for Klan merchandise, and the role of women in the Klan are all included in this period. There are also over 20 issues of the Kourier, the official monthly magazine of the Knights of the KKK. (A full run of this title is on microfilm in the Microfilm Library, 1st floor East). Today the collection features a number of secondary studies of the Klan, as well as research materials used by Wyn Wade in his book, The Fiery Cross (1987).

Click for an inventory list of the United Klans of America Collection, an archive designated MS 202 in our catalog.

A selection of Klan documents is available for viewing here. Please click here to see the current list.

The Michigan State University Museum also houses Ku Klux Klan materials, including robes and what may be the only existing quilt documentation of Klan activity:
http://museum.msu.edu/glqc/collections_2000.71.1.html

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Michigan State University Libraries
Special Collections Division
URL: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/spec_col/radicalism/klan.htm
Last updated: April 27, 2005
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