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2 unusual facts about Grand Wizard


Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War

It tells of the battles between Ku Klux Klan First Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest and Governor of Tennessee William Gannaway Brownlow, the Memphis and New Orleans Massacres, the Lowry War in Robeson County, North Carolina, as well as Arkansas' conflict with the clan.

Nathan Bedford Forrest High School

Due to the controversy of naming a school for Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, many schools formerly named after him have adopted new names.


Glayde Whitney

Whitney generated further controversy in August 1998 when he wrote the foreword for My Awakening, an autobiography by David Duke, a politician and former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.


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Hedy Fry

It was later suggested Fry had confused Prince George with Merritt, British Columbia, where a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard was arrested following reported racist activity.

Wolfgang Droege

Droege was second in command to Canadian Grand Wizard James Alexander McQuirter and the pair attempted to start a KKK branch in Toronto and also organized for the Klan in British Columbia where he spread Duke's "one law for all" and "equal rights for everyone" slogans.