Fryer, Roland G.; Levitt, Steven D. - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 127 (2012) 4, pp. 1883-1925
In this article, we analyze the 1920s Ku Klux Klan, those who joined it, and its social and political impact by combining a wide range of archival data sources with data from the 1920 and 1930 U.S censuses. We find that individuals who joined the Klan in some cities were more educated and more...