Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America explained
The Anglo Saxon Clubs of America was a white supremacist political organization which was active in the United States in the 1920s and lobbied in favor of anti-miscegenation laws and against immigration from outside of Northern Europe. Founded in Richmond, Virginia, in 1922 by musician and composer John Powell and explorer Earnest Sevier Cox, the organization had 400 members in 1923 and 32 "posts" by 1925 and was open only to white male members. The organization was successful in lobbying for tougher legislation and is credited with having secured the passing of the Racial Integrity Act of 1924.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] The organization has been described as "an elitist version of the Ku Klux Klan".[6]
Further reading
Book: Landon, John Cofer L. . The plea for racial integrity : a history of the Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America . 2017 . November 30, 2017 . University of Virginia Press.
Notes and References
- David E. Whisnant. All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region. UNC Press Books, Aug 1, 1995 pp. 240-43
- J. Douglas Smith. The Campaign for Racial Purity and the Erosion of Paternalism in Virginia, 1922-1930: "Nominally White, Biologically Mixed, and Legally Negro" The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Feb., 2002), pp. 65-106
- Lombardo, P. A. (1987). Miscegenation, Eugenics, and Racism: Historical Footnotes to Loving v. Virginia. UC Davis L. Rev., 21, 421.
- Kushner, D. Z. (2006). John Powell: his racial and cultural ideologies. MinAd: The Online Journal of the Israel Musicology Society, 5(1).
- Sherman, R. B. (1988). " The Last Stand": The Fight for Racial Integrity in Virginia in the 1920s. The Journal of Southern History, 69-92.
- Lombardo, Paul (2000). Eugenic Laws Against Race Mixing. Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
