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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Autograph letter signed, 1928 January 18
  name:
    name part: Evans, H. W. (Hiram Wesley)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: letter
  genre: Business correspondence.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gau
    date issued: 1928
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 1 leaf ; 28 cm
  abstract: A reproduced from typewriting letter with Klan letterhead signed by the Imperial Wizard addressed to "Faithful and esteemed Klansman", alerting the membership to a coming call for action. "The hour has come when the legions of the Klan must go forth to battle for the preservation of that Americanism so dear to every loyal son of the Republic... There has arisen within our borders a mighty power which challenges the very fundamentals of Americanism. Both cannot live... There is definite work for you to do. Shortly you will receive a Fiery Summons from the Exalted Cyclops of your Klan to attend a meeting on the stated night, and on that night you will learn more of the duty and service to which you, as a Klansman, are now to be called. Your Imperial Wizard is depending on you to answer that call." The crisis to which the Klan leader alludes was the presidential campaign of New York Democratic governor Al Smith, a Catholic. The Klan held cross burnings across the country to oppose his candidacy.
  note: H.W. Evans, Imperial Wizard.
  note: H.W. Evans (1881-1966) was the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan from 1922 to 1939. Evans joined the Klan in 1920 and was part of the group to oust the previous Imperial Wizard, William Joseph Simmons. Evans succeeded him and sought to transform the group into a political power.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ga
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Evans, H. W. (Hiram Wesley)
    genre: Correspondence
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
    topic: Political activity
  subject:
    topic: White supremacy movements
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Anti-Catholicism
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Smith, Alfred Emanuel
      name part: 1873-1944
  subject:
    topic: Presidents
    geographic: United States
    topic: Election
    temporal: 1928
  classification: HS2330.K63 E87 1928
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 210409
    record change date: 20210420180705.0
    record identifier: in00004447949
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng