The Reference Shelf - 1923 Volume I, Number 10 (KU KLUX KLAN Issue)

This is an antique issue of the publication "The Reference Shelf" - Reprints of Selected Articles, Briefs, Bibliographies, Debates, Study Outlines of Timely Topics. May 1923 - Volume 1, Number 10. Published by The H.W. Wilson Company in New York. This issue is dedicated entirely to a discussion of the Ku Klux Klan. 105 pages. Compiled by Julia E. Johnsen. The publication comes to the conclusion that "the Ku Klux Klan should be condemned by all right-thinking Americans" because "its principles are destructive and wrong." Topics include A Nightgown Tyranny, Ku Klux Klan Revival, Attitude of the North, As Viewed in the South, Ku Klux and Crime, Origin of the Order, Some of the Methods, Ku Klux Klan Today, How Elections are Carried in Texas, Classes that are Barred, The Negro Question, National Expansion Sought, Pretends to Uphold Law, One Instance of Operations, Prerequisites to Citizenship in the Invisible Empire, Ku Klux Kreed, Woman's Klan Created by Simmons, Ku Klux Klan in America, Some Ideals of the Ku Klux Klan, Views of the Klan from Inside, Defense of the Ku Klux Klan, Foes of the Ku Klux, The Ku Klux Klan Law, Nation-wide Fight on Klan, Why of the Ku Klux, Intolerance in Oregon, Ku Klux Klan Radically Wrong, Great Bigotry Merger, Modern Ku Klux Klan, Denounces Klan in Warning to Masons, and more. Condition: Ex-library with "Free Public Library" ink stamp at the top of the front cover, label remainder affixed to the back cover (please see photo), and an ID# stamped in ink at the top of page 1. There are 4 hole-punches through the left edge. The pages are clean with no stains, writing or foxing and only a 3/4" tear at the outer edge of page 37 and a small smudge at the outer edge of page 87. Overall the book is in Good condition.