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New Jersey is celebrated for its strong communities built
across religious and ethnic lines as one of the nation's most
diverse states. The state, though, was not immune to the
reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the first half of the
twentieth century.
Former vaudevillians Arthur H. Bell and his wife used the
tactics of public theater to advertise and recruit for the
organization. At a massive riot in Perth Amboy, thousands of
immigrants besieged a few hundred Klansmen, tossed them
out of building windows, burned their cars and ran them out
of town.
The allying of pro-Nazi German Bund groups and the Klan
in the lead-up to World War II marked the end of the Klan's
foothold. Authors Joseph Bilby and Harry Ziegler chart the
brief rise of the Ku Klux Klan and how New Jersey
collectively stood up to bigotry.
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