United Klans of America
- Not to be confused with the smaller Florida-based United Klan of the 1950s
| United Klans of America | |||
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| Abbreviation | UKA | ||
| Existence | July 8, 1961–1987 | ||
| Type | Ku Klux Klan Americanism | ||
| Location | United States | ||
| Founder | Robert Shelton | ||
| Website | www.theuka.us | ||
United Klans of America (UKA) was the largest Ku Klux Klan organization in America in the 1960s. The group had an estimated 30,000 dues-paying members.[1] with klaverns in sixteen states with the majority being in North Carolina.[2] The UKA was orginally founded in Georgia by Robert Davidson and Calvin Craig, previously known as the Invisible Empire, United Klans, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
On July 8, 1961 five hundred Klansmen from seven states meet in Indian Springs, Georgia to merge the United Klans of America with Robert Shelton's Alabama Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. With the merger, Davidson resigned and turned the organization over to Shelton who later moved the headquarters to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
The UKA issued a newspaper--later a magazine--called The Fiery Cross.
Local United Klans groups often operated under cover names as hunting or sporting clubs.[3]
Contents
State Grand Dragons
- Robert Scoggin of South Carolina
- Calvin Craig of Georgia
- Jack Helm of Louisiana
- Dr. James Malcolm Edwards of Louisiana
- James Robertson Jones of North Carolina, succeeded by Joe Bryant, acting Grand Dragon, after Jones was sent to prison.
- Ralph E. Pryor Jr. of Delaware
- Roy E. Frankhouser of Pennsylvania
- Bennie Sartin of Maryland
- Robert E. Miles of Michigan
- Robert Creel of Linden, Alabama
- William Brassell of Montgomery, Alabama
- James H. Spears of Decatur, Alabama
- Donald E. Cothran of Florida
- James Harris of Ohio
- Flynn R. Harvey of Ohio
- Marshall Kornegay of Virginia (1965-1968)
- Raymond Anderson of Tennessee
- E.L. McDaniel of Mississippi
- Claude Parnell of Greenfield, Indiana
- John Peter Reading of Wisconsin
- George H. Otto of Texas
- George A. McNeely of McGehee, Arkansas
Officers
- Alvin Sisk- Imperial Kligrapp (National Secretary)
- George Dorsett - National Kludd (chaplain)
Pamphlets
- Freedom of Choice: The Law of the Land (undated)
- Fundamentals of Our Racial Problem (undated)
- Here's Proof of the Red Pro-Negro Plot Against the South & USA (undated)
- An Introduction to the United Klans of America (undated)
- Know the United Nations (undated)
- A Message from the Invisible Empire (undated)
- Nightmare! What Could Happen to White Americans in the Late 1970s (undated) [note: text was likely taken from a chapter of George Lincoln Rockwell's bookWhite Power here].
- The Foundation of the White Race (undated)
- The Miracle of the White Race (undated)
- The Real Reason for the Second Amendment by Robert B. DePugh (undated)
- The True Story of the Ku Klux Klan: For God and Country (1977)
- Why Don't People... Vote? (undated)
1960s Klan tunes
- Move Then Niggers North a popular tune at UKA rallies
- Flight NAACP 105
Notes
- ↑ Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture, by Abbe A. Debolt and James S. Baugess, page 669
- ↑ Klansville, U.S.A: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-era Ku Klux Klan by David Cunningham
- ↑ Klan cover names, page 8
See also
- U.S. Klans, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
- Lineage of Ku Klux Klan organizations
- The Underground (KKK)
- Lineage of American Nationalist organizations and individuals
