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Kleagles, Kash and the Klan: Maryland and the Decline of the Klan, 1922-1928

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The decline of social organizations in the United States has not received the study that it has been due. Nowhere is this more true than with respect to far-right organizations like the Ku Klux Klan. Using the example of the Klan in Maryland in the 1920s, we find that the organization was made up of a cross section of society, with heterogeneous opinions and reasons for both joining the Klan and leaving it. In Maryland, the primary force behind the decline of the Klan in the 1920s was the desire of national organizers to raise increasing amounts of money, over the objections of local members.

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