Red Knights (fraternal society)

The Red Knights was a group founded in New Haven, Connecticut in 1874 as one of many ethnic mutual benefit societies in the city.[1][2] Its members were young upwardly mobile Irish who saw the group as a vehicle for social advancement.[1] The group failed for lack of a viable insurance plan, and many of the members went on to found or join the Knights of Columbus.[1][2]

References
  1. Hackett, David G., "That Religion in Which All Men Agree: Freemasonry in American Culture", Univ of California Press, 2014, ISBN 9780520281677, p. 212
  2. Kauffman, Christopher J. (1982). Faith and Fraternalism: The History of the Knights of Columbus, 1882–1982. Harper and Row. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-06-014940-6.
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