1923 KU KLUX KLAN. Is Your Neighbor a Kluxer? The Document that Destroyed the Klan in Chicago.

Is Your Neighbor a Kluxer?, is a seminal artifact from the anti-Ku Klux Klan resistance movements during the rise of the "Second Klan" in the 1920s. Issued as the printing arm of the American Unity League (AUL), the publication was dedicated to exposing the secret membership of the Ku Klux Klan through a early form of public "doxing". Unlike the Reconstruction-era Klan, the 1920s Second Klan operated as a massive, mainstream nativist movement across Midwestern and Northern industrial cities like Chicago, targeting not only Black Americans but also Roman Catholics, Jewish people, and foreign-born immigrants. By publishing stolen or leaked rosters containing the names, home addresses, and businesses of thousands of local Klansmen under direct headlines like "Is Your Neighbor a Kluxer?", the publication sought to neutralize the Klan's power through public shaming, economic boycotts, and political exposure.

The primary historical significance of this publication lies in its embodiment of a rare and strategic solidarity between Black Americans and Roman Catholics. In 1920's Chicago, rapid demographic shifts driven by the Great Migration brought hundreds of thousands of Black Southerners into direct proximity with established European Catholic immigrant communities. The Second Klan sought to exploit these racial tensions, framing itself as the defender of "100% American" white Protestantism against both Black migrants and allegiance to the Vatican. In response, the American Unity League and Tolerance created an organized counter-front that united Irish, Italian, and Polish Catholic leaders alongside Black civil rights activists and press outlets. Both communities recognized that the Klan's rhetoric of racial supremacy and religious bigotry stemmed from the same nativist core, making joint action necessary for mutual survival.

Many historians of the era credit this specific document with all but destroying the Klan's influence in Chicago. When the document was published, there were an estimated 50,000 Klan members in Chicago alone. By 1925 the Klan had shrunk to perhaps 10% of that number.

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[American Unity League] Is Your Neighbor a Kluxer? Chicago, Illinois. Tolerance Publishing Company. 1923. 103pp.

Good - to fair. Wraps torn and detached at spine, otherwise generally solid and clean.