query and update

[bronze_ribbons]

My search skillz having failed me, I turn to the all-knowing readership: rumor has it that one of the co-founders of the KKK was a Unitarian. What was his name? (And, as long as I'm asking, what's your source? This detail is apparently a longstanding item of UU lore in some circles, and I'd like to verify whether it's actually true before I go repeating it.)

Update:
* Still the crud. It's apparently only bronchitis (went in for x-rays yesterday to confirm), but it's literally tiresome and I'm hoping this new batch of meds gets it gone.
* Also insomnia, but as a result, this Sunday's sermon is nearly finished. Go me!
* Claire Huchet Bishop's Twenty and Ten (1952). 76 pages, ages 8-12. Twenty French children help ten Jewish ones hide from the Nazis. Surprisingly fitting for this season.
* Asparagus on sale! Roasted the spears and made soup out of the snap-offs.
* Finished a gift I'd been meaning to pull together since July.
* Hundreds of pages to go before I sleep. Onwards...

Comments

[catrinella.livejournal.com]

Agree with everything schemingreader has said. I can send you the biblio for my dissertation, if you like - it's not Klan-focused, but I did a ton of research to disprove my original theories that the Klan was involved in the decline of Southern Catholic colleges....

The Wikipedia KKK page is actually quite good for its brevity. The Trelease book cited in the references is hugely based on primary docs, though a lot of the other sources are first-hands or aimed at a popular audience. David Chalmers's Hooded Americanism is where I'd probably go first, then the Trelease book.

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweetheart -- I'll pass on the dissertation biblio for now (see explanation to schemingreader above re: idleosity of question), but I appreciate the offer. (Have 80+ hours of work to cram into the next seven days + 2 parties + 1 service + 1 benefit, so library time is just not in the cards. :-(

(And, speaking of work, mega-sympathies on the Access nightmare. Anything having to do with that program makes me want to blow things up, never mind the other tsuris you mentioned.)

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

Oooh, but I might want that bibliography! I didn't realize you wrote on the Klan. My mom wrote her MA on Klan activity in Ohio (which is surprising, if you meet her now!)