William Joseph Simmons - Revision history

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	==Ku Klux Klan==		==Ku Klux Klan==
	Convalescing after being hit by an automobile in 1915, Simmons concerned himself with rebuilding the Klan, which he had seen depicted in the newly released film ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]''. He obtained a copy of the [[Reconstruction era of the United States\|Reconstruction]] Klan's "Prescript," and used it to write his own prospectus for a reincarnation of the organization. He delayed his plans until the trial and lynching of [[Leo Frank]], the murderer of the young girl [[Mary Phagan]] subsided. The sensational murder became a flash point for [[anti-~~Jewish~~]] feeling in [[Georgia (U.S. state)\|Georgia]]. Frank was taken from prison and hanged by a mob who lynched him on August 16, 1915. The lynch mob called themselves the [[Knights of Mary Phagan]], and on October 16, 1915 they climbed [[Stone Mountain]] and lit a giant cross that was visible throughout the city. The imagery of the fiery		Convalescing after being hit by an automobile in 1915, Simmons concerned himself with rebuilding the Klan, which he had seen depicted in the newly released film ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]''. He obtained a copy of the [[Reconstruction era of the United States\|Reconstruction]] Klan's "Prescript," and used it to write his own prospectus for a reincarnation of the organization. He delayed his plans until the trial and lynching of [[Leo Frank]], the murderer of the young girl [[Mary Phagan]] subsided. The sensational murder became a flash point for [[anti-jewish]] feeling in [[Georgia (U.S. state)\|Georgia]]. Frank was taken from prison and hanged by a mob who lynched him on August 16, 1915. The lynch mob called themselves the [[Knights of Mary Phagan]], and on October 16, 1915 they climbed [[Stone Mountain]] and lit a giant cross that was visible throughout the city. The imagery of the fiery
	cross, which had not existed in the [[original Klan]], had been introduced via ''The Birth of a Nation''. The film, in turn, had obtained the image from the works of [[Thomas Dixon, Jr.]] He had taken his inspiration from [[Scottish clans]], who had lit crosses as a method of signalling from one hilltop to the next. The image also occurs in ''Lady of the Lake'' by [[Walter Scott]].		cross, which had not existed in the [[original Klan]], had been introduced via ''The Birth of a Nation''. The film, in turn, had obtained the image from the works of [[Thomas Dixon, Jr.]] He had taken his inspiration from [[Scottish clans]], who had lit crosses as a method of signalling from one hilltop to the next. The image also occurs in ''Lady of the Lake'' by [[Walter Scott]].

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	As the nucleus of his revived Klan, Simmons organized a group of men including many of the Knights of Mary Phagan, in addition to two elderly men who had been members of the original Klan. Fifteen of them went to the Stone Mountain with Simmons on [[Thanksgiving]] Night of 1915 to burn a cross and inaugurate the new Klan.<ref name="time"/> Simmons' later account of the founding included a dramatic account of "a temperature far below freezing," although weather records showed that the temperature had never fallen below 45 degrees that night on [[Stone Mountain]]. Simmons declared himself the [[Imperial Wizard]] of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.		As the nucleus of his revived Klan, Simmons organized a group of men including many of the Knights of Mary Phagan, in addition to two elderly men who had been members of the original Klan. Fifteen of them went to the Stone Mountain with Simmons on [[Thanksgiving]] Night of 1915 to burn a cross and inaugurate the new Klan.<ref name="time"/> Simmons' later account of the founding included a dramatic account of "a temperature far below freezing," although weather records showed that the temperature had never fallen below 45 degrees that night on [[Stone Mountain]]. Simmons declared himself the [[Imperial Wizard]] of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

	In the first years of the new Klan just several thousand members enrolled but eventually it became more popular and hundreds of thousands of new members pledged allegiance. The Klan's enemies were [[African Americans\|Blacks]], [[~~Jews~~]], [[Roman Catholics]] or anybody else who was not a native-born [[British-American\|Anglo-Saxon or Celtic Protestant]].<ref name="time"/>		In the first years of the new Klan just several thousand members enrolled but eventually it became more popular and hundreds of thousands of new members pledged allegiance. The Klan's enemies were [[African Americans\|Blacks]], [[jews]], [[Roman Catholics]] or anybody else who was not a native-born [[British-American\|Anglo-Saxon or Celtic Protestant]].<ref name="time"/>

	==Later life and death==		==Later life and death==

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	==See also==		==See also==
	* [[Lineage of American ~~Nationalist~~ organizations and individuals]]		* [[Lineage of American Fascist organizations and individuals]]

	== References ==		== References ==

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