h of a Nation," which glorified the South and the Klan. Both Supreme Court Justice Edward White and President Woodrow Wilson praised the film (Lowe 14). Accorded a new coat of respectability by many prominent government officials, Simmons and the Klan appealed to pure, native-born, patriotic, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant American citizens over the age of eighteen to join up for a fee of $16.50. Simmons also added more rituals and initiated the Klansman's code of recognition:
"Ayak," one member would say (Are you a Klansman?)
"Akla," another would reply (A Klansman I am!)
"Kigy," the first would respond (Klansman, I greet you.) These greetings remain common among Klansmen today (Lowe 15).
In 1920, the Klan's membership was still very small, approximately six thousand. With the help of Edward Clark and
Bessie Tyler, two fund raisers in Atlanta, the country was divided into eight "domains," each under the leadership of a Grand Goblin. The "domains" were subdivided into smaller "realms," each he
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