Organizing for Violence: the Establishment of Klaverns and Patterns of Lynching Deaths in Early 20th-century America

• In Event: Contemporary Topics in Armed Conflict

Brief Overview

To what extent did the spread of the second Ku Klux Klan facilitate lynchings in the early 20th century? This paper analyzes the spatiotemporal relationships between "klavern" branches and reported lynching deaths.

Author

• Connor Staggs, Brown University