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- Black_Legion_(political_movement) abstract "The Black Legion was a secret vigilante organization in the Midwest of the United States that splintered from the Ku Klux Klan and operated during the 1930s of the Great Depression. The white paramilitary group was founded in the 1920s by William Shepard in east central Ohio in the Appalachian region, as a security force known as the Black Guard to protect Ku Klux Klan officers. The Legion became active in chapters throughout Ohio. One of its self-described leaders, Virgil \"Bert\" Effinger, lived and worked in Lima.In 1931 a chapter was formed in Highland Park, Michigan, expanding to an estimated total membership in the state estimated between 20,000 and 30,000 by the mid-1930s during the Great Depression. Its members were generally native-born Protestant men, many who had migrated from the South. One third of the members lived in Detroit, which had also been a strong center of KKK activity in the 1920s. In May 1936 Charles A. Poole, a Works Progress Administration organizer, was kidnapped from home by a gang of the Black Legion and murdered in southwest Detroit. Authorities arrested and prosecuted a gang of twelve men affiliated with the Legion. Dayton Dean pleaded guilty and testified against numerous other members; ten others were convicted of the murder. Dean and the others were all sentenced to life in prison. One man was acquitted.At the time of Poole's murder, the Associated Press described the organization as \"a group of loosely federated night-riding bands operating in several States without central discipline or common purpose beyond the enforcement by lash and pistol of individual leaders' notions of 'Americanism'.\"Dean's testimony and other evidence stimulated investigations and indictments into a series of other murders and attempted murders during the previous three years. Another 37 men of the Legion were prosecuted for related crimes, convicted and sentenced to prison terms. The trials revealed the wide network of Black Legion members in local governments, particularly in Highland Park, Michigan. Members included a former mayor, chief of police, and city councilman, in addition to persons in civil service jobs. Following the convictions, membership in the Legion dropped quickly; its reign of terror ended in the Detroit area.".
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- Black_Legion_(political_movement) wikiPageWikiLink The_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X.
- Black_Legion_(political_movement) wikiPageWikiLink The_Shadow.
- Black_Legion_(political_movement) wikiPageWikiLink The_Sydney_Morning_Herald.
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- Black_Legion_(political_movement) wikiPageWikiLink Ward_Bond.
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- Black_Legion_(political_movement) subject Category:African-American_history_between_emancipation_and_the_civil_rights_movement.
- Black_Legion_(political_movement) subject Category:Anti-Catholic_organizations.
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- Black_Legion_(political_movement) subject Category:Antisemitism_in_the_United_States.
- Black_Legion_(political_movement) subject Category:Crimes_in_Detroit,_Michigan.
- Black_Legion_(political_movement) subject Category:History_of_racism_in_Ohio.
- Black_Legion_(political_movement) subject Category:Ku_Klux_Klan_organizations.
- Black_Legion_(political_movement) subject Category:Right-wing_populism.
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- Black_Legion_(political_movement) comment "The Black Legion was a secret vigilante organization in the Midwest of the United States that splintered from the Ku Klux Klan and operated during the 1930s of the Great Depression. The white paramilitary group was founded in the 1920s by William Shepard in east central Ohio in the Appalachian region, as a security force known as the Black Guard to protect Ku Klux Klan officers. The Legion became active in chapters throughout Ohio.".
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