The Rising Tide of Color, published by Lothrop Stoddard in 1920 (public domain)
Few people can place much less pronounce the name Lothrop Stoddard. During his 1920s heyday, however, Stoddard’s writings transformed the Ku Klux Klan and popularized the “Nordic” movement for global white supremacy. With some Americans calling the January 6 Washington DC, Capitol Hill riot “white supremacy in action,” his legacy clearly still simmers in the US and his life should serve as a warning.
Admired by President Warren Harding and Adolf Hitler alike, Theodore Lothrop Stoddard was born in 1883 in Brookline, Massachusetts. Educated at Harvard College and Boston University, the historian and journalist’s seminal book was called, “The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy.”