To the Editor:
I was both bemused and offended by John Coulter’s article (Jan. 2) attacking Professor Anita Gaul’s work on the KKK in Southwest Minnesota.
Mr. Coulter is apparently charging Professor Gaul with revisionism, but there is nothing revisionist about her discussion of the KKK in Chandler. The signature characteristic of the KKK in the 1920s was that it went national. They pioneered in direct mail marketing to reach people all over the country. They were unabashedly public, openly lobbying for anti-immigration and anti-Catholic legislation. And they proudly marched ten thousand strong in full regalia down the streets of Washington D.C.