| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly, 32.1

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Book Review

Inside the Klavern: The Secret History of a Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Edited by David A. Horowitz. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. x + 175 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

For historians, the discovery of a new set of documents is a rare but important occurrence. New sources not only help fill gaps in historical knowledge, they can also affect historical interpretation. Such is the case with the minutes of the La Grande, Oregon, Ku Klux Klan. The La Grande Minutes surfaced in 1968 inside the safe of the then recently deceased eastern Oregon attorney and former state legislator, Colon R. Eberhard. Eberhard's attorney kept them until 1980, when he gave them to the Oregon Historical Society. These minutes are now available to a national audience thanks to Horowitz's work. The La Grande Minutes cover the years 1922 to 1924 and, according to Horowitz, they support the position of revisionist Klan scholars who depict the 1920s incarnation of the organization (the "second" Ku Klux Klan) not as a marginal group of violent racists, but as "a popular crusade of mainstream citizens seeking to strengthen traditional values and practices in the freewheeling era following World War I" (p. 150). . . .

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