Kleagle
Encyclopedia
A Kleagle is an officer of the Ku Klux Klan
whose main role is to recruit new members
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Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as the Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically...
whose main role is to recruit new members
Ku Klux Klan recruitment
Kleagles were the individuals, responsible for recruiting potential Ku Klux Klan members. Kleagles, as defined by the Ku Klux Klan: An Encyclopedia, were organizers or recruiters, “appointed by imperial wizard or his imperial representative to ‘sell’ the KKK among non-members”...
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Kleagles
- Edgar Ray KillenEdgar Ray KillenEdgar Ray "Preacher" Killen is a former Ku Klux Klan organizer who conspired in the murders of three civil rights activists—James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner—in 1964....
, a MississippiMississippiMississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi...
Klansman long suspected of involvement in a notorious civil rights movement murder that were the subject of the movie Mississippi BurningMississippi BurningMississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime drama film loosely based on the FBI investigation into the real-life murders of three civil rights workers in the U.S. state of Mississippi in 1964. The film focuses on two fictional FBI agents who investigate the murders...
. Killen was found guilty of manslaughter on June 21, 2005. - Robert ByrdRobert ByrdRobert Carlyle Byrd was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010...
, former senior senator in the United States SenateUnited States SenateThe United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
from West VirginiaWest VirginiaWest Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...
, though he had long since disavowed any connection with the Ku Klux Klan.
King Kleagles
King Kleagle was the head of the Kleagles for a geographic area:- Arthur H. BellArthur H. BellArthur Hornbui Bell was a resident of Bloomfield, New Jersey and the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey.-Early years:...
- George W. Apgar of the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey