Providence College DigitalCommons@Providence History & Classics Undergraduate Theses History & Classics Fall 2019 Unheard Voices Against the Invisible Empire: Black and Catholic Responses to the Second Ku Klux Klan William Hartl Providence College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/history_undergrad_theses Part of the History Commons Hartl, William, "Unheard Voices Against the Invisible Empire: Black and Catholic Responses to the Second Ku Klux Klan" (2019). History & Classics Undergraduate Theses. 39. https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/history_undergrad_theses/39 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the History & Classics at DigitalCommons@Providence. It has been accepted for inclusion in History & Classics Undergraduate Theses by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Providence. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Unheard Voices Against the Invisible Empire: Black and Catholic Responses to the Second Ku Klux Klan by William Hartl HIS 490 History Honors Thesis Department of History Providence College Fall 2019 This paper is dedicated to all the victims of the Ku Klux Klan and to all those courageous individuals who risked their lives in order to bring to light the evils of the Invisible Empire. “The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak” - Dr. Cornel West CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.………………………………………………………….…...…….….v INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………………...1 CHAPTER 1. THE IDEOLOGY OF THE SECOND KLAN…………………………………….10 The Klan’s Worldview………………………………………………………………...…11