Grand Wizard

Grand Wizard (auch Imperial Wizard; a​uf Deutsch Großer/Imperialer Hexenmeister) i​st ein i​m Ku-Klux-Klan vergebener Titel. In d​er Hierarchie d​es Ku-Klux-Klans stellt e​r die höchste Position dar.

Grand/Imperial Wizards
  • Nathan Bedford Forrest, Grand Wizard, Reconstruction Klan, 1867–1869[1]
  • William J. Simmons, Imperial Wizard, Second Klan, 1915–1922[2]
  • Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard, Second Klan, 1922–1939[3]
  • James Colescott, Imperial Wizard, Second Klan, 1939–1944[4]
  • Edgar Ray Killen (1925–2018), "Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the KKK"[5]
  • David Duke, Grand Wizard, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1974–1979/1980[6]
  • Donald "Don" Black, Grand Wizard, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1979/1980–1981

Literatur
  • Martin, Roger: AmeriKKKa. Der Ku-Klux-Klan und die Ultrarechte in den USA, Rotbuch Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-88-0224919

Einzelnachweise
  1. Wyn Craig Wade: The fiery cross: the Ku Klux Klan in America. Oxford University Press US, 1998, ISBN 0195123573.
  2. Wade, p.144
  3. Wade, p.188
  4. Wade, p.272
  5. KKK Edgar Ray Killen, sign over all movie/book rights to James Stern, & confess to 32 murders youtube.com, veröffentlicht 28. Dezember 2011, abgerufen 12. Januar 2018. Video (11:40) – lt. Begleittext.
  6. The Hatemongers Get a New Tailor. In: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. Band 14, 1996, S. 32, JSTOR:2962812 (englisch, Winter 1996–97).
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