Buffalo Ku Klux Klan Membership List
Dedicated to the memory of Officer Edward Obertean and Mayor Frances X. Schwab
In the early 1920s, after decades of dormancy, the Ku Klux Klan was resurgent, gaining new recruits in the Northeast by using modern sales techniques in which recruiters received commissions for signing new members. Capitalizing on anxieties about "foreigners" and racial purity, the Klan found new members in locales with otherwise strong traditions of interracial progress and tolerance. Buffalo was one such city.
Collection owner: Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society