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SCREENING UPDATE:
This documentary will screen Friday, January 22 at Portland State University in the Multicultural Center, Smith Memorial Building starting at 6 PM. The screening is free to the public.
The film will also be screened Wednesday, January 20 at 7 PM at the Salem Public Library, Salem, Oregon, in the Loucks Auditorium. This event is part of Willamette University's MLK Week and in partnership with the City of Salem Human Rights Commission. The event is free to the public.
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PORTLAND - Frame by Frame Productions is proud to announce a new documentary from Producer/Director Thomas Coulter titled, The Ku Klux Klan in Oregon: 1920-1923. The film, debuting at the Astoria International Film Festival in October 2009, covers the brief period when the Klan influenced politics in the State as their membership grew to more than 5,000 members from Tillamook to La Grande.
The documentary covers the history of the Klan from its start after the Civil War to their activities in the early 20th Century. For instance, in the early 1920s certain members of the Klan, called Kleagles, were dispatched to all states in the Union to drum up support for their organization outside of their stronghold in the south. What the Klan organizers found when the Kleagles arrived in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest were near perfect social conditions to recruit new members, especially during an atmosphere of nativist feelings was engulfing the nation after World War I.
The Ku Klux Klan in Oregon: 1920-1923 covers the eventual demise of the Klan, its aftermath and explains the reasons why the group could not maintain their organizational leadership and power over local businesses and politic
For more information about the film, click here.
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