The Indiana Klan peaked under Stephenson, who was known as a spellbinding orator. He used churches to recruit. Stephenson, ...
A century ago, our state had been taken over by the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. D.C. Stephenson had declared, “I am the law in Indiana,” and had bought off a governor, legislators, mayors, cops ...
EVANSVILLE – Evansville, Timothy Egan says, was ripe for a “skillful conman grifter.” It found one in D.C. Stephenson. The booze-soaked, wife-beating racist blew into town in 1922 after a series of ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Nearly 100 years before the Me Too movement encouraged women to speak up about sexual assault and harassment by powerful men, Indiana Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon and state political power ...
INDIANAPOLIS — A century ago, our state had been taken over by the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. D.C. Stephenson had declared, “I am the law in Indiana,” and had bought off a governor, legislators ...
D.C. Stephenson, a KKK leader who held significant political power in Indiana, was convicted of murder in 1925. The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported and denied due process, highlights ...
INDIANAPOLIS — A century ago, our state had been taken over by the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. D.C. Stephenson had declared, “I am the law in Indiana,” and had bought off a governor, legislators ...
INDIANAPOLIS — A century ago, our state had been taken over by the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. D.C. Stephenson had declared, “I am the law in Indiana,” and had bought off a governor, legislators ...