Here’s the Thing: Ku Klux Klan – A fever in the heartland

In the early 1920s a resurgent Ku Klux Klan rose to prominence in Indiana.  It is estimated that dues paying membership and participation in Klan activities included nearly 300,000 Hoosiers in a population of approximately three million.  Indiana, a state that sacrificed 25,000 lives in the Civil War, had more Klan members than any state…