Indiana White Caps
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White caps were groups involved in the whitecapping movement who were operating in southern Indiana in the late 19th century. They engaged in vigilante justice and lynchings, with modern viewpoints de
Frank Reno, one of the first lynching victims in Indiana
Le Petit Journal 7 Oct 1906
Indiana Klan
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The Indiana Klan was the state of Indiana branch of the Ku Klux Klan, a secret society in the United States that formed in Georgia in 1915. It grew rapidly in the early 1920s all across the United Sta
Indiana White Caps
…of the victims were whites, while twenty were blacks. Although the white cap ended their lynching and more severe forms of vigilante justice, the Indiana branch of the Ku Klux Klan began to rise in the following decade, drawing many former white caps into their numbers. Whitecapping…
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