John Kasper
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Frederick John Kasper Jr. was an American politician, Ku Klux Klan member, and a segregationist who took a militant stand against racial integration during the civil rights movement.
Kasper in 1957
Ezra Pound
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His work
John Kasper
…integration during the civil rights movement. Raised in Merchantville, New Jersey, and educated at Columbia University, Kasper became a devotee of Ezra Pound and corresponded with the poet as a student. Between 1950 and 1963, Kasper sent 400 letters to Pound and received an unknown number of replies (Pound's…
Pound photographed in 1913 by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Thaddeus Coleman Pound, Pound's paternal grandfather, in the late 1880s
In his Cheltenham Military Academy uniform with his mother, 1898
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), c. 1921