Ku Klux Klan in Connecticut

Title

Ku Klux Klan in Connecticut

Description

The largest ever Ku Klux Klan rally of more than 10,000 people takes place not far from Willimantic in South Manchester, part of a larger current of xenophobia and racism in New England and the rest of the country at the time.

Source

Bruce Fraser, Land of Steady Habits: A Brief History of Connecticut (Hartford, CT: Connecticut Historical Commission, 1988), 53.

Date

1924-09

Contributor

turner_max

Collection

Citation

“Ku Klux Klan in Connecticut,” History Digitized, accessed March 12, 2026, https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/848.