| | The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc. which existed from 1915 to 1944, elaborated on the original prescript in its Kloran and in the constitution and by-laws adopted in 1922.{{fact}} Some titles and jurisdictional designations were carried over from the [[Reconstruction]] prescripts intact or slightly modified, and others were original with Imperial Wizard Simmons. | | The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc. which existed from 1915 to 1944, elaborated on the original prescript in its Kloran and in the constitution and by-laws adopted in 1922.{{fact}} Some titles and jurisdictional designations were carried over from the [[Reconstruction]] prescripts intact or slightly modified, and others were original with Imperial Wizard Simmons. |
| − | In Massachusetts, it was exposed by ''Hearst's International'' that prominent birth control activist [[Lothrop Stoddard]], an outspoken white supremacist, was an Exalted Cyclops of the state's Klan.<ref>1923. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hearst_s_International/MwLnAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lothrop+stoddard+exalted+cyclops&pg=RA1-PA10&printsec=frontcover Hearst's International: Vol. 44], p. 10. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref> Historian David M. Chalmers writes that sound evidence confirms Stoddard's KKK membership.<ref>Chalmers, David M. (1987). [https://archive.org/details/hoodedamericanis00chal/page/270 Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan], pp. 270–71. ''Internet Archive''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref> | + | In Massachusetts, it was exposed by ''Hearst's International'' that prominent birth control activist [[Lothrop Stoddard]], an outspoken white supremacist, was an Exalted Cyclops of the state's Klan.<ref>1923. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hearst_s_International/MwLnAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lothrop+stoddard+exalted+cyclops&pg=RA1-PA10&printsec=frontcover Hearst's International: Vol. 44], p. 10. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref> (see also: [[Birth control and racism]]) Historian David M. Chalmers writes that sound evidence confirms Stoddard's KKK membership.<ref>Chalmers, David M. (1987). [https://archive.org/details/hoodedamericanis00chal/page/270 Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan], pp. 270–71. ''Internet Archive''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref> |