I don’t know if its been linked here before, but Reason‘s Jesse Walker has a great article “Hooded Progressivism: The Secret Reformist History of the Ku Klux Klan:” “Progressivism, like the Klan, came in many flavors: There were east coast reformers who wanted business and government to work as partners and mountain state populists who distrusted such centralized power, white supremacists in the Wilson administration who did so much for segregation and anti-racists in the NAACP who wanted to censor The Birth of a Nation.” Walker goes on to explain where these two movements overlap. Hat tip to Mirror of … Continue reading Klan in the Progressive Era