Dan Moody vs. the KKK: The Texas Case That Led to the Klan’s Demise
In the summer of 1919, the emergence of the second wave of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) marked the resurgence of white supremacy in Texas. Their targets expanded beyond African Americans to include immigrants, Jews, Catholics, and generally anything they considered "anti-American". But the efforts of one man – District Attorney Dan Moody – helped trigger the KKK’s downfall and spelled the beginning of the end for the KKK in Texas, and eventually, the U.S. Read more about Dan Moody, the KKK, and the trial that dealt them a death knell in our first installment of "Undertold History," a new blog series that sends you to the real places where real stories took place, so you can see for yourself where history happened.