Ku Klux Klan (1915-)

Scope and Contents This collection includes a typewritten copy of "Brief History of the Citizens School Committee of Indianapolis, Indiana." Compiled by Fred Bates Johnson and Edgar H. Evans on February 9, 1944, the history is four pages long and covers the time from its founding in 1921 through the 1942 elections. The history lists both the officers of the committee and the candidates supported in each election, and also mentions the influence of the Ku Klux Klan on the school board from 1926 to 1930.

Scope and Contents This collection contains photocopies of correspondence sent to Robert Bracken, including an April 12, 1924 letter from D.C. Stephenson asking for influence in getting state funds for deposit for the Lincoln Savings Bank of Evansville; a November 6, 1925 letter from former Indiana Governor Warren T. McCray from Atlanta, Georgia asking Bracken, as a member of the Board of Finance, to help him and contact James A. Finch, a pardon attorney in the Department of Justice; and a circa 1925 note from...