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Kampus Klan:
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Ku Klux Klan, in the Early 1920s

Project Editor: Ryan Treick, History 470: Digital History, Spring 2008

Table of Contents

Overview
National Klan
Nebraska Klan
University Klan
Bibliography

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Unpublished Works

Committee of the Lincoln Province. Letter to Chancellor Avery. Order No. 27. 20 September 1921.

Published Works

Avery, Samuel. "Chancellor Avery's Statement." Daily Nebraskan. Lincoln, Nebraska: 20 September 1921.

"Avery Opposes Ku Klux Klan at University." Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: 20 September 1921.

"Burns Will Probe Klan Organization." Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: 22 September 1921.

"Congress Starts to 'Unmask' Ku-Klux." Omaha Daily News. Omaha, Nebraska: 22 September 1921.

Editorial. "Teaching University Students." Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: 20 September 1921.

Editorial Cartoon. "The Grand Goblin. Nebraska State Journal Lincoln, Nebraska: 19 September 1921.

"Federal Probe of Klan." Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: 21 September 1921.

"Forming Ku Klux Klan at Nebraska University." Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: 21 September 1921.

Frost, Stanely. The Challenge of the Klan. New York, New York: AMS Press: 1969.

"Hay's Department Probe's Ku Klux." Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: 22 September 1921.

"Issues Ultimatum on Ku Klux Parade." Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: 22 September 1921.

"Kill Ku-Klux among UNI Students." Omaha Daily News. Omaha, Nebraska: 20 September 1921.

"Klux Klan Courts a Federal Probe." Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: 23 September 1921.

"Klux Klan to Fight Order Mayor Issues." Lincoln Star. Lincoln Nebraska: 17 September 1921.

"Ku Klux Abandons Kentucky Meeting; Goes to Indiana." Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: 18 September 1921.

"Ku Klux in Business." Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: 17 September 1921.

"Ku Klux Klan Parade in Street at Shawnee." Omaha World Herald. Omaha, Nebraska: 22 September 1921.

"Ku Klux Klan Report Goes to the President." Omaha World Herald. Omaha, Nebraska: 22 September 1921.

"'Ku Klux of West' to Oppose Sportsmen." Omaha World Herald. Omaha, Nebraska: 20 September 1921.

"Louisville Forbids Meeting of Ku Klux Klan." Omaha World Herald. Omaha, Nebraska: 17 September 1921.

"May be Federal Action Against Ku Klux Klan." Omaha World Herald. Omaha, Nebraska: 21 September 1921.

"Missouri Masonic Lodge Denounces Ku Klux Klan." Omaha World Herald. Omaha, Nebraska 21 September 1921.

"No KKK Stuff for McKelvie." Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: 24 September 1921.

"Probe Affairs of the Ku Klux. Lincoln Star Lincoln, Nebraska: 23 September 1921.

"Probe Ku Klux." Omaha Daily News. Omaha, Nebraska: 21 September 1921.

"Reavis in Fight to Expose Klan." Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: 20 September 1921.

Rein, Clifford. "Charges Unfounded." Letter to the Editor. The Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: 21 September 1921.

"Rumor Klan Unit to be Formed Here." Daily Nebraskan. Lincoln, Nebraska: 20 September 1921.

"Students at UNL Are Barred from the Ku Klux Klan" Omaha World Herald. Lincoln, Nebraska: 21 September 1921.

"UNI Ku Klux Klan Runs into a Snag." The Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: 19 September 1921.

"University Notes." The Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska: 25 September 1921.

Secondary Sources

Davis, Lenwood, and Sims-Wood, Janet. The Ku Klux Klan: A Bibliography. Westport: The Greenwood Press., 1984.

Maclean, Nancy. Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan. New York: Oxford University Press., 1994.

McVeigh, Rory. "Power Devaluation, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Democratic National Convention of 1924." Sociological Forum. 16, 1. (2001).

Mecklin, John. The Ku Klux Klan: A Study of the American Mind. New York: Russell & Russell, 1963.

Newton, Michael. The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.

Ruiz, Jim. The Black Hood of the Ku Klux Klan. San Francisco: Austin and Winfield.

Schuyler, Michael W. The Ku Klux Klan in Nebraska, 1920-1930. Nebraska History. 66, 3. (1985).

Sims, Patsy. The Klan. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1996.

Stanton, Bill. Klanwatch: Bringing the Ku Klux Klan to Justice. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991.

Welker, Patricia. "The Church in Two Diverse Communitiews During the 1920s: Guthrie Center, Iowa, Sydney, Nebraska, and a Pragmatic Minister." . 44, 1. (2005).