The Ku Klux Klan's Campaign Against Hispanics 1921-1925

<p> The Ku Klux Klan's persecution of Hispanics during the early 1920s was just as brutal as their terrorizing of the black community--a fact sparsely documented in historical texts. The KKK viewed Mexicans as subhuman foreigners supporting a Catholic conspiracy to subvert U.S. institutions and install the pope as leader of the nation and mounted a campaign of intimidation and violence against them.</p><p> Drawing on numerous Spanish-language newspapers and Klan publications of the day the author describes the KKK's extensive anti-Hispanic activity in the southwest.</p>