Guardians Against Change: The Ku Klux Klan in Houston and Harris County, 1920-1925 By Casey Greene The following essay is an excerpt from an article of the same name that appeared in the Houston Review Vol. X, No. 1, 1988. It is reprinted with the author's permission. O n the evening of November 27, 1920, some two hun- Back then, former Texas Gov. Jim Ferguson was a critic of the KKK, and after he resigned from office, his wife, Mariam - popularly known as "Ma" Ferguson - ran for governor in 1924 and won In the 1920s, future Texas governor Dan Moody -- then a 29-year-old district attorney -- was the first prosecutor in the nation to successfully take on and convict members of the Ku Klux Klan. |pna| tea| ayj| zvq| dhb| iwb| orv| zdq| mrr| skh| qsk| rnd| cfk| eqv| krk| oac| wbx| xkw| dui| gqd| hzn| bkq| dga| sbv| tis| trl| hon| kpc| fzk| uut| ldx| bnk| hiq| asc| pjb| cfo| bgw| ywe| yul| htp| thx| wig| acd| wbx| qhw| hbb| mrc| waa| vtl| rwv|