Ron Davies. Gennett's dealings with the Klan are discussed in Rick Kennedy's book, Jelly Roll, Bix and Hoagy. I've heard, although this isn't mentioned by Kennedy, that the Starr Piano Company (Gennett's parent company) had a nice little sideline making wooden clubs for strikebreakers to baton striking workers with!

Will. Interesting comment about the Klan trying to remould its image. When British National Party leader Nick Griffin apeared on BBC's Question Time last year, he tried to defend the BNP's links to the Klan by describing that organisation as nowadays "almost totally non-violent". Actually, compared to some of the gun-toting and explosives stockpiling nutters who are in the BNP, there may be a grain of relative truth in that.