Sanford Vandifer Rogers, Jr. collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn619892
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Collection of American Ku Klux Klan pamphlets which were acquired by Sanford Vandifer Rogers, Jr. while he was a member of the KKK in Spartanburg Country, South Carolina in the 1920s. Pamphlets are entitled "The Klan Spiritual" by Dr. H.W. Evans (1924, two copies); "The Obligation of American Citizens to Free Public Schools (undated); "The Practice of Klanishness" (1924); "The Jewish Problem in the United States" by Rev. Sam H. Campbell (undated); and "Principles and Purposes of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan" (undated).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn619899
• English
• 1920-1928
• overall: | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Diameter: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Ku Klux Klan (KKK) medal acquired by Sanford Vandifer Rogers Jr. in Spartanburg County, South Carolina during the 1920s while he was a member. Sanford was born in 1864. His father, Sanford senior, was a Confederate soldier who died in a Union prisoner of war camp in Elmira, New York just before he was born. The KKK promoted the idea that whites are inherently superior to other races. This idea was supported by the racially motivated, pseudoscientific American eugenics movement, which attempted to establish a hierarchy of races. These racist ideas were used to justify the exclusion of Africa...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn713089
• English
• overall: Height: 44.000 inches (111.76 cm) | Width: 23.250 inches (59.055 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Handmade KKK hood worn by (and possibly made by) Sanford Vandifer Rogers, Jr. The hood was homemade out of a flour sack.