The Ku Klux Klan's Campaign Against Hispanics, 1921-1925

Download or read book The Ku Klux Klan's Campaign Against Hispanics, 1921-1925 written by Juan O. Sánchez and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ku Klux Klan's persecution of Hispanics during the early 1920s was just as brutal as their terrorizing of the black community--a fact sparsely documented in historical texts. The KKK viewed Mexicans as subhuman foreigners supporting a Catholic conspiracy to subvert U.S. institutions and install the pope as leader of the nation, and mounted a campaign of intimidation and violence against them. Drawing on numerous Spanish-language newspapers and Klan publications of the day, the author describes the KKK's extensive anti-Hispanic activity in the southwest.