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Billy Sunday

American evangelist and baseball player (1862-1935)

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Dec 2, 2025
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What biblical passages did Klansmen cite to defend racial hierarchy?

Klansmen and allied white-supremacist writers commonly cited Genesis 9:25–27 (the so‑called “Curse of Ham”), passages about slave obedience in the New Testament (Ephesians 6:5; Colossians 3:22; 1 Timo...

Dec 2, 2025

What role did biblical literalism play in the KKK’s recruitment and propaganda?

Biblical literalism and Protestant tone were central tools the 20th-century Ku Klux Klan used to recruit, normalize and sacralize its agenda: the second Klan explicitly framed itself as restoring Prot...