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The Black Legion and the Wolverine Republican League
Black Legion – Part II, The Wolverine Republican League By David Siwik – Præteritum Michigan Editor The previous post covered the rise of the Black Legion, a Ku Klux Klan-type, right-wing, white-supremacist group that rose to prominence in Michigan in the 1930s. The Legion were feared by many who had the unfortunate occasion of crossing their…
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The Black Legion in Michigan
by David Siwik, Præteritum Editor Taking the long view of American history, the decade of the 1930s looks different than those that preceded or followed. In a nation historically stubbornly resistant to change, in the 1930s, Americans experimented with new ideas and new possibilities of doing things in ways they had not done before. Some of…
