Brown Harwood

Brown Harwood (March 8, 1872 – June 26, 1963) was an American realtor and prominent leader of the Ku Klux Klan. A resident of Fort Worth, Texas,[1] Harwood was a charter member of the Klan in that city; he eventually became Grand Dragon[2] of the Texas Ku Klux Klan.[3] In 1922, Harwood became imperial (national) klazik (vice-president) of the Ku Klux Klan.[1][4] He stayed in that position until April 14, 1925; the arrest of Klan leader D. C. Stephenson for rape and murder in Indiana turned public opinion against the organization.[5][6]

Personal

He was a second-generation Klansman, as his father, Dr. Musgrove Pettus Harwood, was a member of the original post-Civil War Klan. His father was a resident of Pulaski, Tennessee, where the Klan was founded.[3]

After leaving the Klan, he returned to real estate development in Fort Worth, Texas. He lived a quiet life thereafter and died in 1963 at the age of 91. He was given a freemason funeral and is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth.[5]

References
  1. Kenneth T. Jackson (1992). The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 84, 236. ISBN 978-0-929587-82-0.
  2. Juan O. Sánchez (20 July 2018). The Ku Klux Klan’s Campaign Against Hispanics, 1921–1925: Rhetoric, Violence and Response in the American Southwest. McFarland. pp. 168–. ISBN 978-1-4766-3165-3.
  3. David Mark Chalmers (1987). Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan. Duke University Press. pp. 44, 175. ISBN 0-8223-0772-3.
  4. Norman D. Brown (1984). Hood, bonnet, and little brown jug: Texas politics, 1921-1928. Texas A & M University Press.
  5. "That Old House on Foard Street (Part 1): The Klan". February 26, 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
  6. Charles C. Alexander (13 January 2015). The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 108–. ISBN 978-0-8131-6197-6.
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