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Princeton and the Ku Klux Klan
by Gabrielle M. Girard | Reconstruction to Present (1865-)
During the early 1920s, Princeton students came into contact with local members of the Ku Klux Klan. Their interactions with the Klan reveal both curiosity about the organization and anxiety about the following it could develop on university campuses.

The Princeton Immigration Restriction League (1922-1924)
by Nicky Steidel | Reconstruction to Present (1865-)
In 1922, Princeton affiliates founded a chapter of the Immigration Restriction League (IRL) on campus, advocating for restrictions on non-western European immigration into the United States. Though the organization dissolved in 1924, the IRL leaders’ commitment to white supremacy extended into their professional lives as influential 20th-century scholars.

What Princeton Owes to Firestone’s Exploitation of Liberia
by Jonathan Ort | Reconstruction to Present (1865-)
Forced labor in Liberia built the Firestone fortune—and transformed Princeton. The story of Firestone, Liberia, and Princeton reveals how racist exploitation entangled and enriched Nassau Hall in the century that followed the U.S. Civil War.
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"What Is Behind the Hood?"
October 31, 1923 | Reconstruction to Present (1865-)
Daily Princetonian editorial condemning the lawlessness of the Ku Klux Klan.