Edward L. Jackson was an American attorney, judge and politician, elected the 32nd governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from January 12, 1925, to January 14, 1929. He had also been elected as Secretary of State of Indiana.
Edward L. Jackson
The Indiana Klan was a branch of the Ku Klux Klan, a secret society in the United States that organized in 1915 to promote ideas of racial superiority and affect public affairs on issues of Prohibition, education, political corruption, and morality. It was strongly white supremacist against African Americans, Chinese Americans, and also Catholics and Jews, whose faiths were commonly associated with Irish, Italian, Balkan, and Slavic immigrants and their descendants. In Indiana, the Klan did not tend to practice overt violence but used intimidation in certain cases, whereas nationally the organization practiced illegal acts against minority ethnic and religious groups.
An Indiana Klan gathering in Muncie, Indiana in 1922
Population of white male residents of each Indiana county who belonged to the Klan during the 1920s
D.C. Stephenson, Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana and other northern states during the height of Klan power in the 1920s
Women of the Ku Klux Klan, Muncie, Indiana, 1924