"I am the law in Indiana."
--D. C. Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Invisible Empire for the Realm of Indiana
LINKS:
Indiana Center for History: "Indiana and the Ku Klux Klan"
"Ku Klux Klan in Indiana" (Indiana State Library: Listing of Resources)
Indiana University: Digital Archives Collection: "the Fiery Cross" (Indiana Klan Newspaper)
Indiana Historical Society: D. C. Stephenson Collection, 1922-1978
"The Stephenson Trial," by Lindsay Dunn (2000)
J to the Power of 7: "D. C. Stephenson: An Old Case of Molestation"
Additional Reading (Books):
Butler, Robert A. So They Framed Stephenson (Privately Published)
Egan, Timothy. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plotto Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Viking, 2024, 404 pp.)
Grant, Robert and Katz, Joseph. The Great Trials of the Twenties: The Watershed Decade in America's Courtrooms (Sarpedon, 1998, 282pp.)
Horowitz, David. Inside the Klavern: The Secret History of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920’s (Southern Illinois University Press).
Lutholtz, M. William. Grand Dragon: D.C. Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan
(Purdue Univ. Press, 1993, 362 pp.)
Moore, Leonard J. Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1921-1928
(Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1997, 276 pp.)
Additional Reading (Collections and Periodicals):
Evans, Hiram Wesley. “The Klan’s Fight for Americanism.” North American Review. March 1926.
D.C. Stephenson Collection, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN.
Indianapolis News. 16 January 1924 - 28 November 1927
Leibowitz, Irving. My Indiana. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1964.
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