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found this here:
http://historicalimages.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/white-wedding/
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)"Sedro Woolley".
Ouch.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Does this reading remind anyone of republicans today?
http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/kkk_social.htm
The Washington State Klan in the 1920s
Chapter 7
Social Klan: White Supremacy in Everyday Life
by Trevor Griffey
These were just some of the innovations that the Ku Klux Klan sought to introduce to its members in the Pacific Northwest during the 1920s. And while such rituals were rare even among most Klansmen, and never gained popularity (most notably in a failed "Klan Frolic" in Portland staged by Luther I. Powell), they show how the Klan sought to insinuate itself into people's everyday lives.
On the one hand, the Klan attempted to transform some of the most sacred activities in American life at the time. It treated activities which most people viewed in religious terms as political acts that needed to include self-conscious displays of patriotism and white supremacy.
The above photo of a "KKK Wedding" in Sedro Woolley in 1926 highlights this point by showing how the Klan sought to link family, religion (notice the cross in the hearth), the flag, and one's membership in civic groups like the Modern Woodmen of America (notice the certificate in the top left of the photo; KKK leader William J. Simmons was also a Woodman). Though these pairings may seem stranger in retrospect, an article from the Bellingham Herald just two months later showed how easily they could be taken for granted. In its story, "Klan Wedding Held: Nooksack Couple Married at Tulip Hall Here" the Herald reported the wedding as a family event with only pro forma mention that it was held "in the presence of klansmen and invited guests."
On the other hand, unusual rituals like the Klan wedding and Klan Christmas showed the shameless depths to which Ku Klux Klan marketing could go. The Klan recruited members by marketing itself as a means to celebrate and support that which most white Americans did already: go to church, get involved in civic groups and fraternal orders, participate in family life, and vote. The Klan would capitalize on people's insecurity that these activities were under threat from within and without, and offer itself (for a fee) as a kind of protector of tradition. The ultimate goal of such marketing was to transform people's everyday habits so they came to think that being American was synonymous with being a Klan member. ..............
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http://www.skagitriverjournal.com/S-W/Gen/Group/KKK-1924-1925.html
madaboutharry
(40,190 posts)It is simultaneously pathetic and ridiculous.
LuvNewcastle
(16,834 posts)Aristus
(66,291 posts)Still, it is a rural area. Lot of closed minds out in the wide open spaces...
hunter
(38,303 posts)... and ultimately all of them do.
Racism is so stupid. I wonder if any of the people in this picture grew out of it?
I witnessed a lot of progress in my own white California family as a kid.
One of my grandfather's was upset I was marrying (in his words) a "Mexican girl" but he got over it.
He wasn't a segregationist as I knew him, he lived and worked within a cosmopolitan community. I think as a former military officer, Truman's desegregation of the U.S. military left a very positive impression on him.
Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,896 posts)It looks familiar.
LuvNewcastle
(16,834 posts)Amazingly appropriate.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Its their heads.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Shoes.
Laxman
(2,419 posts)had a children's section! Isn't that just the cutest thing you ever saw? Who the hell presided over this wedding?