27, 1924, detailed how military authorities at Camp Custer (now Fort Custer) in Augusta had trained machine guns on a hill at a southern portion of the camp, where an estimated crowd of 2,000 Klansmen allegedly gathered over the previous two nights. The 1926 Battle Creek city directory also shows the “Women of the Klu (sic) Klux Klan” had an office space downtown inside the Ward Building.Īn article in the Battle Creek Enquirer dated Aug. Much of it is newspaper advertisements from the 1920s for propaganda meetings held inside the former auditorium on Division Street, where the KKK rented space. The Historical Society of Battle Creek has a box detailing Klan activity in the region. The contents of the file are just one record of the group’s presence locally during the 1920s, when the KKK's popularity surged in the Midwest.
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