Grand Wizard
Grand Wizard (also Imperial Wizard ; in German Großer / Imperialer Hexenmeister ) is a title awarded in the Ku Klux Klan . He represents the highest position in the hierarchy of the Ku Klux Klan.
Grand / Imperial Wizards
- Nathan Bedford Forrest , Grand Wizard, Reconstruction Klan, 1867–1869
- William J. Simmons , Imperial Wizard, Second Klan, 1915-1922
- Hiram Wesley Evans , Imperial Wizard, Second Klan, 1922-1939
- James Colescott , Imperial Wizard, Second Klan, 1939-1944
- Edgar Ray Killen (1925-2018), "Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the KKK"
- David Duke , Grand Wizard, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1974–1979/1980
- Donald "Don" Black , Grand Wizard, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1979/1980-1981
Individual evidence
- ^ Wyn Craig Wade: The fiery cross: the Ku Klux Klan in America . Oxford University Press US, 1998, ISBN 0195123573 .
- ↑ Wade, p.144
- ↑ Wade, P.188
- ↑ Wade, p.272
- ↑ KKK Edgar Ray Killen, sign over all movie / book rights to James Stern, & confess to 32 murders youtube.com, published December 28, 2011, accessed January 12, 2018. Video (11:40 am) - according to accompanying text.
- ↑ The hatemongers Get a New Tailor . In: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education . tape 14 , 1996, pp. 32 , JSTOR : 2962812 (English, winter 1996-97).
literature
- Martin, Roger: AmeriKKKa. The Ku Klux Klan and the ultra right in the USA , Rotbuch Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-88-0224919