An Evening With! Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan with Patricia Bernstein

Join us to spend an evening with Patricia Bernstein as she discusses her book Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan.

Bernstein will discuss the legacy of Dan Moody, a twenty-nine-year-old district attorney who put several Klansmen on trial in Georgetown in 1923, and went on to become the state’s youngest attorney general and governor. Bernstein argues that the trials were the beginning of the end of the Second Klan in Texas. This talk will specifically focus on the history of the Klan in Dallas and local individuals and institutions, like The Dallas Morning News, who fought it at its height of power and influence in the early 1920s.” A corresponding pop up exhibit will display artifacts from the DHS collection that relate to the Klan in Dallas.

“Bernstein uses him (Dan Moody) artfully to recount the story of the second incarnation of the Klan, forcing the reader to hear echoes of Klan-bred intolerance manifested in today’s heated political rhetoric…The author begins by broadly reviewing the KKK’s place in American History. Thereafter the books’ lens slowly narrows its focus from the “postwar tumult” (ix) that gave rise to the Klan in multiple regions, to the rise of the Klan in Texas, thence to its footprint at the municipal level in Dallas and Houston…that led to Moody’s courtroom triumph.” Kevin Portz, 2018 Southwest Historical Quarterly

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$10 for Non-DHS Members

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