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Token, "Knights of Ku Klux Klan, Realm of Michigan, Member in Good Standing," 1919
The Ku Klux Klan was reborn in the late 1910s, flourished, but began to decline in the mid-1920s. It never completely disappeared, however. This token from 1919 shows a member's "good standing" in the KKK's Michigan realm. The innocuous figures (the hooded knight and goddess-like woman) belie the hatred, vigilantism, and violence found under the hood of the Klan. |