Just three days after the huge Dauphin County Ku Klux Klan demonstration in Harrisburg, which attracted an estimated 30,000 supporters, Americans woke up to read in their morning newspapers of […]
A 1904 musical and comedy program at Loyalton, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania with the Adams Brothers included at least one act in black-face. The program was put on for the benefit […]
A photograph taken around 1887 of the Odd Fellows building in Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The building, which was built in 1872, was formally dedicated in June 1873, with elaborate […]
The front page of the West Schuylkill Herald for March 3, 1977, a weekly newspaper published in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The articles in that paper are related to […]
PROPOSED COUNTRY CLUB BUILDING A special meeting of members of the Lykens Valley Country Club was held at Hotel Lykens recently. A 50-acre farm situated two miles west of Lykens […]
An ornate membership certificate for the Improved Order of Red Men, a racist, whites-only organization with a “tribe” in Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. According to Wikipedia: The group’s ritual terminology […]
On April 22, 1965, the Sunbury Daily Item published an Associated Press piece by Lee Linder which gave a brief history of the Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania. Although it […]
An article that appeared in the Sunbury Daily Item on February 24, 1924, told of two large explosions followed by two burning crosses in the area around Sunbury, Northumberland County, […]