[Ads-l] Antedating of "Ku Klux Klaner"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Ku Klux Klaner (OED 1923)

1868 Daily Evening Express (Lancaster City, Pa.) 8 Aug. 2/3 (Newspapers.com)

While the Sheriff of Benton county was attempting to arrest some Ku-Klux-Klaners, the brother of the Sheriff and an assistant were killed.

Fred Shapiro


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