Brown Harwood
Brown Harwood (March 8, 1872 – June 26, 1963) was an American realtor and prominent leader of the Ku Klux Klan. A resident of Fort Worth, Texas,[1] Harwood was a charter member of the Klan in that city; he eventually became Grand Dragon[2] of the Texas Ku Klux Klan.[3] In 1922, Harwood became imperial (national) klazik (vice-president) of the Ku Klux Klan.[1][4] He stayed in that position until April 14, 1925; the arrest of Klan leader D. C. Stephenson for rape and murder in Indiana turned public opinion against the organization.[5][6]
Personal[edit]
He was a second-generation Klansman, as his father, Dr. Musgrove Pettus Harwood, was a member of the original post-Civil War Klan. His father was a resident of Pulaski, Tennessee, where the Klan was founded.[3]
After leaving the Klan, he returned to real estate development in Fort Worth, Texas. He lived a quiet life thereafter and died in 1963 at the age of 91. He was given a freemason funeral and is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Kenneth T. Jackson (1992). The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 84, 236. ISBN 978-0-929587-82-0.
- ^ Juan O. Sánchez (20 July 2018). The Ku Klux Klan's Campaign Against Hispanics, 1921–1925: Rhetoric, Violence and Response in the American Southwest. McFarland. pp. 168–. ISBN 978-1-4766-3165-3.
- ^ a b David Mark Chalmers (1987). Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan. Duke University Press. pp. 44, 175. ISBN 0-8223-0772-3.
- ^ Norman D. Brown (1984). Hood, bonnet, and little brown jug: Texas politics, 1921-1928. Texas A & M University Press. ISBN 9780890961575.
- ^ a b "That Old House on Foard Street (Part 1): The Klan". February 26, 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
- ^ Charles C. Alexander (13 January 2015). The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 108–. ISBN 978-0-8131-6197-6.