The Burning Cross of the KKK

Hiram Evans, who ousted the PR people at the end of 1922 and became the next Imperial Wizard, still wanted to make money. But he was also someone for whom straight up racism was a huge part of the appeal. His first career as a dentist might seem modest, one of his rivals liked to call him a tooth puller,. He called himself the most average man in America, so as to normalize the clan. In fact, he was capable of serious violence. And Dallas, where he had organized black squads that kidnapped and tortured at least one black man.