Connecticut Klan robe

by Dr. William Frank Mitchell, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

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Ku Klux Klan robe, c. 1928 (The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford)

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The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Cite this page as: Dr. William Frank Mitchell, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker, "Connecticut Klan robe," in Smarthistory, December 21, 2018, accessed May 29, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/connecticut-klan-robe/.

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