Token, Ku Klux Klan: "United We Stand, Divided We Fall," circa 1930
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The Ku Klux Klan was reborn in the late 1910s and flourished in the early 1920s. It declined beginning in the mid-1920s, but never completely disappeared. This small KKK token contains innocuous phrasing and mystic-like symbols belying the hatred, vigilantism, and violence found under the hood of the Klan.
The Ku Klux Klan was reborn in the late 1910s and flourished in the early 1920s. It declined beginning in the mid-1920s, but never completely disappeared. This small KKK token contains innocuous phrasing and mystic-like symbols belying the hatred, vigilantism, and violence found under the hood of the Klan.
Artifact
Medal
Date Made
circa 1930
Place of Creation
On Exhibit
at Henry Ford Museum in With Liberty & Justice for All
Object ID
2005.16.70
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Brass (Alloy)
Dimensions
Diameter: 1.188 in
Inscriptions
obverse: UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL reverse: A COMPASSIONATE HEART / A CHIVALRIC HEAD / A PRUDENT TONGUE / A COURAGEOUS WILL
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