KKK
Ku Klux Klan and Notre Dame Collection
1920s-.
University of Notre Dame. Archives.
2.5 linear inches.
University of Notre Dame Archives
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
English.
Legal Status
Private
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Administrative Information
Collected by the Archives of the University of Notre Dame.
Preferred Citation
Ku Klux Klan and Notre Dame Collection (KKK), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556
Scope and Content
Material concerning the 1924 riot in South Bend, Indiana, between Notre Dame students and the Ku Klux Klan specifically; and the Ku Klux Klan and Notre Dame, in Indiana and in the USA more generally.
Background
The genesis of this collection seems to have been in the President's Office (see UPWL), but additional documents about the Ku Klux Klan have been added to it over the years.
University of Notre Dame.
University of Notre Dame -- History -- 20th century.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Indiana -- History.
Anti-Catholicism -- Indiana -- History -- 20th century.
Related Material
- Notre Dame President 1922-28: Rev. Matthew J. Walsh
UKKKKu Klux Klan and Notre Dame: Collection1920s-1980s
UKKK 1/01Summons for University of Notre Dame regarding the Complaint of Joseph P. Certia, etc. 1922/0812
Concerns the Ku Klux Klan Suit against Cedar Grove Cemetery.
UKKK 1/02Letters Received by President Matthew Walsh, CSC 1923/05-12
Mainly letters from Patrick H. O'Donnell concerning efforts against the Klan in Chicago and South Bend.
UKKK 1/03Letters Received by President Matthew Walsh, CSC 1924/05-10
Mainly letters describing, praising, or decrying Notre Dame's actions during the May 1924 Klan March and Riot; and a few letters concerning the October 1924 March.
UKKK 1/04Clippings regarding May 1924 Ku Klux Klan March and Riot in South Bend 1924,70-80
UKKK 1/05(Indianapolis) Fiery Cross [Ku Klux Klan Newspaper] 1924/0523
UKKK 1/12The Truth about the Notre Dame Riot (by H.M. Trausch) 1924
UKKK 1/06Clippings regarding October 1924 Ku Klux Klan March. 1924
UKKK 1/07Handbill for South Bend Ku Klux Klan Meeting 1926/0705
UKKK 1/08Clippings regarding the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana 1920s
UKKK 1/09Copies of Clippings regarding Anti-Catholicism and Ku Klux Klan 1921-1926
UKKK 1/10Clippings regarding Ku Klux Klan in General1930s,70s,80s
UKKK 1/11Joseph M. White Thesis: Ku Klux Klan in Indiana in the 1920s as Viewed by the Indiana Catholic Record 1974
DKKKKu Klux Klan and Notre Dame: Digital Data1920s
Several documents scanned from UKKK, chiefly from UKKK 1/04.