Ku Klux U: An Indiana Academy Briefly Considers Kkk Command Inward 1923

Hoosier State Chronicles posted a fascinating article past times Stephen J. Taylor on Jan 6, 2016, "Ku Klux U: How the Klan Almost Bought a University." 

Taylor explores a brief menses inwards 1923 when Valparaiso University, facing seemingly insurmountable fiscal problems, entered into talks amongst Milt Elrod, editor of the KKK's The Fiery Cross newspaper. 

While the conversations didn't Pb to whatsoever serious offer, they did movement quite a fleck of employment concern amongst opposition to whatsoever bargain reflected inwards a issue of articles too editorials published inwards diverse newspapers. 

Taylor incorporates images of paper articles too advertisements into his writing too places them inside a broader narrative explaining how the in 1 trial promising establishment of higher teaching was at a indicate of desperation where it seriously considered a possibility of KKK control.

JSTOR likewise offers an article online past times Lance Trusty, All Talk too No "Kash": Valparaiso University too the Ku Klux Klan, from the Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 82, No. 1 (March 1986), pp. 1-36.

Visit the Valparaiso University spider web site for a timeline too to a greater extent than information on institutional history.

Several previous  posts furnish to a greater extent than information on Valparaiso University history:

• Sunday, September 2, 2012  Valparaiso Male too Female College (IN)
• Tuesday, Dec 19, 2017  Campus Fires Shape Valparaiso University too Students Present Results of Archival Research
• Sunday, Dec 13, 2015  Campuses: Four Centuries of Changes too Challenges

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