Kleagles and Cash: The Ku Klux Klan As a Business Organization, 1915-1930

1965/01/01 by Charles C. Alexander · 1 voice · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · #Race, History, and American Society #American History and Culture #Asian American and Pacific Histories

paper · doi:10.2307/3112145

openalex publication_date 1965/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21

Abstract

The promotional, financial, and manufacturing enterprises of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc. are examined in this study of its most prosperous years.

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• Ku Klux Klan members in United States politics [wikipedia]

Discussions

• That's from the conclusion of Charles Alexander's great, classic study of the Klan as a business organization. Analyzing the graft, he doesn't use the term MLM, but I think it applicable. Anyway, no [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]

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