Monday, April 16, 2018
William Joseph Simmons: A preacher used Christianity to revive the Ku Klux Klan - The Washington Post
It was approaching midnight on Oct. 16, 1915, when Methodist preacher William Joseph Simmons and at least 15 other men climbed Stone Mountain in Georgia. They built an altar, set fire to a cross, took an oath of allegiance to the “Invisible Empire” and announced the revival of the Ku Klux Klan....
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