Eldon Edwards, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, May 5, 1957

Author
Ku Klux Klan
Date
May 5, 1957
Name of Author
Eldon Edwards
Body

“I sure will believe in segregation for the simple reason we believe in preserving and protecting God’s word. He created the white man. He intended for him to stay white. He created the nigger. He intended for him to stay black. And we believe that Mongolization destroys both races and creates a Mongol which is not a race.”Eldon Edwards, “The Mike Wallace Interview,” May 5, 1957, http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/edwards_eldon_t.html.

Date
Rhetoric Category
Anti-Miscegenation
Racist
Segregationist
White Supremacist
Threat
KKK (Ku Klux Klan)

Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers. 

View Archive