1920s student clubs named the K.K.K. and K.K.K.K.
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1920s student clubs named the K.K.K. and K.K.K.K.
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In 1923, Hendrix College hosted a student chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. “The Troubadour,” the college yearbook, contains a photo of approximately 20 students in full Klan robes and hats with a burning cross directly behind them. The image is listed in the school's “clubs,” directly next to the chemistry club. In the 1924 yearbook, there is a women’s group labeled the K.K.K., but their relationship to the actual Klan is uncertain. The group began listing themselves as the K.K.K.K. in later yearbooks until 1930, when the club no longer appears. The yearbook photo and ensuing women’s club coincided with the political rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Faulkner County, where Hendrix College is located, and in the nearby state capital of Little Rock. The Klan's presence in central Arkansas was not secretive. They often hosted large events in the name of the organization. The W.K.K.K (Women’s Ku Klux Klan) was also formed in 1924, the same year that Hendrix women's organization K.K.K. first appears in the Hendrix yearbook.
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1924
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1929
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