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The Fellowship Forum was an anti-Catholic publication that was mostly read by white, Protestant fraternalists. Historian Thomas R. Pegram has described the publication as a "Klan allied masonic journal". The link between Masons and the Klan was first announced in the Fellowship Forum. After the Klan hired the Southern Publicity Association to increase the organization's membership in the 1920s, Fellowship Forum readership increased—from 1,000 readers in 1921 to a circulation of over one million by 1927. The paper has been described as "an integral part of the resurgence of the KKK among white Americans in the 1920s."

The first issue of the Fellowship Forum was published on June 24, 1921 by the Independent Publishing Company, in Washington, DC. The founders of the paper, who were both Masons, called it "The World's Greatest Fraternal Newspaper." Its stated mission was to disseminate "religious and patriotic doctrines." When Justice Harlan Stone was nominated to the United States Supreme Court during the Prohibition era the Fellowship Forum wrote that he had a "fine record" and had been "very active in the enforcement of Prohibition laws" as Attorney General.

Notes

  1. MacLean 1995 p. 7
  2. Pegram 2011 p. 154
  3. Dumenil 2014 p. 259
  4. Gonzalez & Torres 2011 p. 205
  5. Fox 1997 p. 194
  6. The Fellowship Forum. 2019. OCLC 10618489. Retrieved Dec 17, 2019 – via Worldcat.com.
  7. Gonzalez & Torres 2011 p. 205
  8. Hamburger 2009 p. 423

References

  • Dumenil, Lynn (2014). Freemasonry and American Culture, 1880-1930. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-5383-0.
  • Fox, William (1997). Lodge of the Double-headed Eagle: Two Centuries of Scottish Freemasonry in America's Southern Jurisdiction. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 978-1-61075-243-5.
  • Gonzalez, Juan; Torres, Joseph (2011). News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media. Verso Books. ISBN 978-1-84467-942-3.
  • MacLean, Nancy (1995). Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509836-5.
  • Pegram, Thomas R. (2011). One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. Ivan R. Dee. ISBN 978-1-56663-922-4.
  • Hamburger, Philip (2009). Separation of Church and State. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-03818-9.
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