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  Imperial Wizard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Imperial Wizard was the title used by the national leader of the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan—considered by many to be a hate group—in the 20th century.
It signified the highest ranking member of a Klan organization's leadership.
Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans sold the Klan's mailing list in 1939.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_Wizard   (105 words)

  
 Grand Wizard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grand Wizard was the title used by the overall leader of earliest form of the Ku Klux Klan, during Reconstruction in the South.
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of the twentieth century used a different system of titles for their officers, and the leaders of twentieth-century Klan factions have more commonly used the title of Imperial Wizard throughout the United States.
Grand Wizard is the rank attained by the notorious white nationalist politician David Duke prior to leaving the organization.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_Wizard   (197 words)

  
 PBS - Freedom Never Dies: The Story of Harry T. Moore - Florida Terror - The Klan in Florida
The first Imperial Wizard was former Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forest, who disbanded the Klan in 1869 to avoid government sanctions.
Simmons was dethroned as imperial wizard in 1922 by Hiram Wesley Evans, and by 1925, the Klan had an estimated three million members nationwide.
In 1939, Hiram Evans retired as imperial wizard and was replaced by James A. Colescott, who testified before Congress that Florida was the strongest realm in the nation.
www.pbs.org /harrymoore/terror/k.html   (825 words)

  
 David Essex : Imperial Wizard - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Imperial Wizard was released in the wake of his biggest hit in three years, "Oh What a Circus" -- performed in Essex's role of Che Guevara in the stage musical +Evita.
Pre-empting the warm, sax-driven moodiness that would soon bring great reward to Gerry Rafferty, Imperial Wizard opens with the smooth "Let It Flow" before drifting into a menacing art-funk vibe ("Call On Me" and the super-rousing title track) that helps dominate the remainder of the album.
There are a handful of missteps that prevent Imperial Wizard from truly ascending to the ranks of great Essex albums.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,82719,00.html   (318 words)

  
 Imperial Klans of America - Membership   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
They often remarked that a part of the attraction of the IKA was that Imperial Wizard Ron Edwards had been a stable Wizard for a number of years and was always there for his people.
Imperial Wizard Ron Edwards convened a meeting at this years IKA Fall Fest held in March.
Yet the original Klan, under Imperial Wizard Nathaniel Forrest did not form to be a Christian Church; just as the IKA does not exist to be a Christian Identity Church.
www.k-k-k.com /membership.html   (909 words)

  
 Imperial Wizard :: PEJ News
What failed to endear Indians to Nixon, a quality he labeled "deviousnes," has enough in common with witchcraft and bastardy to make me think that he was onto something although the label is a indisputably a supreme case of kettle-phobia from one of the grimier pots on the political range.
In the imperial state, the missing father is replaced by the state.
The hyper-masculine male is both beneficiary and sacrifical victim of the imperial machine which employs him as soldier, sailor, beggar-man, and thief as it suits its purposes.
www.pej.org /html/print.php?sid=2922   (2168 words)

  
 Origins of Alf's Imperial Army - Wizard of New Zealand
ALF's Imperial Army was named after the university reform movement he founded earlier at The University of NSW in Sydney and was consciously part of the ongoing Fun Revolution.
The Wizard himself arrived in 1974 and the battles began to move away from the increasingly conformist university campuses to other locations, and other enemies came forward to declare war on ALF's Imperial Army.
Why was the 'Wizard' missing in action in the most important battle of all - the war to defeat the Roundhead subservives in the Australian 'republic' referendum on November 6.
www.wizard.gen.nz /alfsarmy.html   (3860 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: EVANS, HIRAM WESLEY
Hiram Wesley Evans, "imperial wizard" of the Ku Klux Klan,
Evans was imperial wizard from 1922 until 1939.
While serving as imperial wizard he dealt in emulsified asphalt for highway construction in Atlanta.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/EE/fev17.html   (392 words)

  
 KKK - Photographs
Grand Wizard, K-Quad (fourth and highest degree of the KKK) world leader of the Invisible Empire, Order of the KKK is the one in the red baldric.
Imperial Wizard Dave Neuman is kneeling and not wearing a hood.
The rally shield shown was donated to the museum by Imperial Wizard Perry Huber's Indiana based Liberty Knights of the KKK
www.kkklan.com /photos2.html   (556 words)

  
 News 14 Carolina | 24 Hour Local News | TOP STORIES
Virgil Griffin, an imperial wizard with the KKK, will appear before the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Saturday.
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- A Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard who was present at the 1979 Klan-Nazi shootings is scheduled to appear Saturday before a panel studying the shootings in hopes of reaching a resolution.
Virgil Griffin, an imperial wizard with a KKK chapter west of Charlotte, is scheduled to appear before the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
www.news14charlotte.com /content/top_stories?ArID=97667   (485 words)

  
 Wicked Witch of the North
The Imperial Wizard told the King that only the Wicked Witch of the North could break the spell, but he could put his own spell on the Witch that would force her to release the great pump and stop the noise.
The Great Imperial Wizard picked up his magical wand and decreed that every time the pump made a loud noise a piece of the Witch’s castle would fall off.
The Wizard said that from this time forward the Ivy on the Queen’s side of the river Swale would grow, every time the pump made a loud noise, covering up the drain to the river and that only the Queen would be able to cut it.
www.starksravings.com /witch/wwitch.htm   (1091 words)

  
 NKKKFL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Imperial Wizard James Venable later sold the land to the state of Georgia for one million dollars.
In 1993 Venable gave the keys to the box and the reigns to now Imperial Wizard Ray Larsen.
Imperial Wizard Ray Larsen is just that, an Imperial Wizard.
a.1asphost.com /akia/new_page_1.htm   (655 words)

  
 Will KKK fade into history? - The Clarion-Ledger
Imperial Wizard Richard Greene, who had urged Klansmen to stay away from Killen's trial, is hoping for a big turnout for the rally: "The Klan is far from dead.
J.J. Harper, imperial wizard of the American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Cordele, Ga., shook hands with Killen before his trial began.
He recalled the last telephone conversation he had with one-time Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers, who headed the largest and most violent Klan organization in the 1960s, the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi.
www.clarionledger.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050715/NEWS01/507150366/1002   (960 words)

  
 Ku Klux Klan - Knights of the KKK - Brotherhood of Klans KKK
The first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan was Nathan Bedford Forrest, a high ranking Confederate general, also known as, The Wizard in the Saddle.
Simmons held the position of Imperial Wizard from 1915 until 1922.
Nobody in the south wanted that to happen, so a new resistance was born and the Ku Klux Klan began to increase their membership once again.
www.ku-klux-klan.org /KKKhistory.html   (649 words)

  
 KKK Notes
Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard and Emperor, Knights of the KKK In 1920, Evans joined the Ku Klux Klan and devoted most of his time to its support.
According to Evans, God provides a master key to all problems on earth but it is up to those on earth to "attend to their own temporal salvation and safety." Evans, the Imperial Wizard, saw the problem, as being the fact the United States was (and still is considered) a melting pot.
For that is what the "imperial wizard,, Hiram Wesley Evans did in 1920 when he led a group of klansmen to a nearby hotel and forcibly removed Alex Johnson, a fl bellhop and wrote "KKK" on his head with burning acid (The Texas Handbook Online).
www.assumption.edu /users/McClymer/his261/KlanNotes.html   (3665 words)

  
 wizards
He was sworn in as Imperial Wizard by three men who had been members of the original KKK under Gen. Forrest.
He was sworn into the Ku Klux Klan in the White House by Imperial Wizard Simmons.
He sat on the Imperial Koncilium in 1923, which transferred leadership of the KKK from Col. Simmons to Hiram Evans.Under media pressure he superficially repudiated the KKK.
www.kkklan.com /wall.htm   (2628 words)

  
 Martin Rheinhardt (Night Raven foe)
Imperial Wizard of the Swords of the New Dawn, newspaper editor
Late that summer, Rheinhardt met with Montclair, Montclair's attorney Ambrose Fisher, and a man named Bob Linnaker at Asa Coolidge's hotel in Shanghai to finalize the plans for the assassination of African-American presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln Brown, who was due to speak in Shanghai that night.
Once that was concluded, he returned to his cabin and dressed in his Imperial Wizard robes.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix3/rheinhardtmartinnr.htm   (587 words)

  
 KONFEDERATION OF KLANS
The Konfederation of Klans is not an attempt to unite the Klans under one Imperial Wizard or one leadership.
Mostly it will be the Imperial Wizard, his Imperial Klaliff and one voted Grand Dragon.
If groups don't have an Imperial Wizard they shall have their Grand Dragon, his Grand Klaliff and one voted officer in good standing as delegates for the Board.
www.konfederationklans.com /index1.html   (298 words)

  
 KKK imperial wizard to speak at Greensboro hearing - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Virgil Griffin, a KKK Imperial Wizard, was asked to testify about the 1979 incident in Greensboro, NC during an anti-Klan demonstration.
The Imperial Wizard is the head of a KKK group.
There were no winners in this one, but if this Grand Wizard or anyone testifying regarding such were smart, they'd take a step back and consider the motivations behind any of these moves and make sure they mention the federal informant involvement too.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=218117   (1301 words)

  
 (DV) Chuckman: America's Imperial Wizard Visits Canada
Everywhere he goes, he projects the self-satisfied image of an America happy to dump its untreated effluent into the world's supply of drinking water so long as Americans themselves feel they are doing the right thing.
We can just be grateful that Imperial Vice Wizard Cheney didn't tag along for the trip or they never would have made it to Halifax.
Cheney never goes anywhere in the U.S. without a fleet of ambulances and chase cars, lights flashing and sirens blaring, just in case his heart implant ever fails during vitriolic speeches.
www.dissidentvoice.org /Dec2004/Chuckman1206.htm   (1097 words)

  
 Black lawyer is keeper of KKK wizard's secrets
The irony has to be killing everyone in Courtroom 15, but just as children are taught not to point at a two-headed man on the subway, nobody is making too much about this odd pairing.
Imperial Wizard David Hull blubbers and dabs his eyes as a prosecutor describes his attempts to buy hand grenades to bomb abortion clinics, and recounts his boasts that he turned his gray Mazda into a "suicide car" that would detonate at the flick of a switch.
Leaving the courtroom for a second day, I cannot resist the urge to ask Diggs if a sort of bonding between client and lawyer is not necessary to make a defense work.
www.post-gazette.com /columnists/20030222roddy102col2p2.asp   (678 words)

  
 Imperial Notice - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The first part of June 2004, I choose to step to the side and allow the Imperial Klaliff, Randall White, to run the group as “Acting Imperial Wizard”, due to circumstances that I felt may jeopardize the SWK.
He has gone on a rampage in recent weeks in an effort to remove all Officers that he felt threatened by or thought may have allegiance to me. I refused to let anyone destroy the name of the SWK for their own personal agendas.
Therefore let it be known with the backing of both past Imperial Wizards and the majority of the Imperial Office and Members of the Southern White Knights.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=145708   (549 words)

  
 About the Ku Klux Klan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Ku Klux Klan was born and the White Riders of the Night terminated the unfairness for a while.
The first Grand Wizard was Nathan Bedford Forrest, a high rank Confederate-general ("The Wizard in the Saddle").
But the Klan needed just one man to bring it down: Imperial Wizard Robert E. Stevenson was convicted for raping a woman to death.
www.volkermord.com /freehosting/wk-youth/SitePages/about.htm   (978 words)

  
 Imperial Klans of America - Knights of the Ku Klux Klan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Imperial Klans of America Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are a legal and law abiding organization that will NOT tolerate illegal acts of any sort.
If you take it upon yourself to violate the law, you do so on your own, If you commit an illegal act it will result in your membership with the IKA to be on suspension and you may be banished.
The Imperial Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a law abiding organization that's seeking pure Aryan men and women.
www.wilwheaton.org /crusher/history/20040823-00_12.html   (496 words)

  
 Flame Revival News Online: Ex. Imperial Grand Wizard of KKK gives testimony at Flame Meeting in Australia...
Imperial Grand Wizard of KKK gives testimony at Flame Meeting in Australia...
Imperial Grand Wizard of the KKK speaks at Catholic Meeting in Australia: Johnny Lee Clary stunned Catholics with...
Ex Imperial Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) speaks at Flame Meeting in Perth, Western Australia.
www.flameministries.org /news13.htm   (4312 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - The Klan Tries a Comeback   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
DURING the spring of 1959, a number of posters appeared on trees and utility poles in certain sections of Little Rock and at least eight other Arkansas towns, and along major highways...
...The Chief of Staff, or Imperial Kleagle, to the Imperial Wizard, asserted that the Klan was actively operating in forty-five states and had a King Kleagle or state manager in forty-one states...
...The Wizard of the Saddle became the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V29I1P51-1.htm   (4188 words)

  
 Reviews of Children's Books -- *Writers Write -- The IWJ*
In the land of Eldearth, the dark powers are kept at bay by the Imperial Wizard, who is growing old and weak.
A new Imperial Wizard must be found or the dark powers will overwhelm the goodness and light of the kingdom.
So she defies her father's wishes and sets out to fulfill the three tests that the Chosen One must pass to be accepted as an Apprentice to the Imperial Wizard.
www.writerswrite.com /journal/dec03/children2.htm   (753 words)

  
 Contemporary Letter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
One article, published in the Cordele Dispatch on June 17, 2005, one editorial comment published on June 22, 2005, and one "on-line" comment published on June 23, 2005 is of serious concern by the American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc. and it’s president, JJ Harper, Imperial Wizard of said corporation.
On June 17, 2005, Cindy Bishop wrote an article in the Cordele Dispatch concerning the presence of the American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc. at the trial of Edgar Ray Killen in Philadelphia, MS.
Effective immediately, South Georgia Media Group is hereby asked to publicly apologize for defaming the American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc. And JJ Harper, Imperial Wizard of said corporation.
www.awkkkk.org /southgamediagroup.htm   (338 words)

  
 Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX30) :: Press Release :: CONGRESSWOMAN JOHNSON BLASTS NADER AND REFORM PARTY ...
Washington, D.C. Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson is expressing alarm over news reports revealing that the National Chairman of the Reform Party played a major role in the legal defense of the former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who was convicted for masterminding the murder of a legendary NAACP leader in Mississippi.
Congresswoman Johnson is calling on Nader to reject O’Hara’s support and to repudiate his role in defending one-time Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers as he stood trial for the 1966 murder of Mississippi NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer, Sr.
In its May 24, 1999 edition, the newspaper reported, “O’Hara gained public attention last year as he assisted in the defense of one-time Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers.
www.house.gov /apps/list/press/tx30_johnson/EBJMadAboutKKK.html   (406 words)

  
 Ku Klux Klan on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Forrest, the famous Confederate cavalry leader, was made Grand Wizard of the Empire and was assisted by ten Genii.
Control over local Dens was not as complete as this organization would seem to indicate, and reckless and even lawless local leaders sometimes committed acts that the leaders could not countenance.
America's Invisible Empire Imperial Wizard Ricky Draper discusses the beliefs of his Ku Klux Klan organization, during an interview on May 26, 2002, saying that the invisible empire is emerging into a
www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/KuKluxKl_TheFirstKuKluxKlan.asp   (2078 words)

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