4. The Truth about the Ku Klux Klan, 1921

This pamphlet, whose title page is shown here, contained an edited version of “The Truth about the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,” a pro-Klan lecture presented at Portland’s Municipal Auditorium on December 22, 1921. A showing of the pro-Klan film, The Face at Your Window, followed the lecture. The speaker, Reverend Reuben H. Sawyer, was a part-time pastor at Portland’s East Side Christian Church and a popular speaker who traveled to Oregon cities to help organize new KKK chapters, or klaverns.