When the Ku Klux Klan re-emerged as a mass movement in the early 1920s, the hate group’s main targets were Catholics and other immigrants, but the revived Klan swiftly became the largest, most powerful anti-Semitic force in the nation’s history.

Retired Oregon newspaper reporter Steve Law brings this long-buried and sordid history to life in his new book Peddlers of Hate: How the Ku Klux Klan Seized Power in 1920s Oregon, published by OSU Press.

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