ويليام جوزيف سيمونز

ويليام جوزيف سيمونز (بالإنجليزية: William Joseph Simmons)‏ هو سياسي أمريكي، ولد في 6 مايو 1880 في مقاطعة شيلبي في الولايات المتحدة، وتوفي في 18 مايو 1945 في أتلانتا في الولايات المتحدة.^[1]^[2]^[3]

روابط خارجية

^ "The Various Shady Lives of the Ku Klux Klan". Time. 9 أبريل 1965. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2013-08-24. An itinerant Methodist preacher named William Joseph Simmons started up the Klan again in Atlanta in 1915. Simmons, an ascetic-looking man, was a fetishist on fraternal organizations. He was already a "colonel" in the Woodmen of the World, but he decided to build an organization all his own. He was an effective speaker, with an affinity for alliteration; he had preached on "Women, Weddings and Wives," "Red Heads, Dead Heads and No Heads," and the "Kinship of Kourtship and Kissing." On Thanksgiving Eve 1915, Simmons took 15 friends to the top of Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, built an altar on which he placed an American flag, a Bible and an unsheathed sword, set fire to a crude wooden cross, muttered a few incantations about a "practical fraternity among men," and declared himself Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
^ "The 20th Century Ku Klux Klan in Alabama". Alabama Department of Archives and History. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2017-11-15.
^ Alabama Confederate Pension request dated 6 Dec 1920, completed by Lavonia Davis

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