Hiram Wesley Evans

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Hiram Wesley Evans (1881-1966) was Imperial Wizard (leader) of the "second" Ku Klux Klan (KKK) from 1922 until 1939.

The second Klan, often called the KKK of the 1920s, was established by Methodist minister and Democrat William J. Simmons in 1915 on Stone Mountain near Atlanta, Georgia. The first KKK (1865-1869) existed to maintain white control over former slaves in the regions of the former Confederate States of America.

The second Klan was also anti-African American, but it had a much wider agenda. The nativist group was also anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, and anti-labor union. On the other hand, it was very supportive of the temperance movement and alcohol prohibition, which it pledged to enforce.

Evans' books include The Menace of Modern Immigration (1923), The Klan of Tomorrow (1924), Alienism in the Democracy (1927) The Rising Storm (1929), and The Klan Fights for Americanism. Evans' writing ended as the fortunes of the Klan faltered and then imploded by 1930.

Sources

  • Handbook of Texas
  • Alexander, Charles C. The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965.
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