A directory of the Pacific Northwest Domain of the KKK

ID: 5899 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of the University of Washington’s Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project

This file appears in: The “Invisible Empire” on Riverside Ave: The KKK of the 1920s and 1930s in Spokane

This is from a page of the Washington KKK publication Watcher on the Tower from 1923 when the Spokane KKK occupied an office in the Realty Building, also in downtown Spokane

This file appears in: The “Invisible Empire” on Riverside Ave: The KKK of the 1920s and 1930s in Spokane

The “Invisible Empire” on Riverside Ave: The KKK of the 1920s and 1930s in Spokane

By G. K. Freed

In the 1920s and 1930s, the Hyde Building on W. Riverside Avenue served as the headquarters for Spokane Ku Klux Klan. This building, located in the heart of downtown, also housed offices for the U.S. District Court in Spokane. The Klan used official…