y's border location was important in laying the groundwork for the Ku Klux Klan. El Paso presented the KKK with an opportunity for playing on racial fears. The Texas Klan was occupied with issues concerning law, order, and social morality. There was no community in Texas more concerned with these issues than El Paso. The city was perfect for the growth of the KKK.
             It's not for sure when the Klan first came to the El Paso area, but as early as May, 1921, there was a Klan recruiter in El Paso. Kellogg ( the recruiter ) set up his headquarters in the Sheldon Hotel. There he had a lot of strange meetings and received a lot of phone calls. In the New York World's expose of the Ku Klux Klan, Kellogg was listed as the "King eagle" for the "realm" of New Mexico. Nobody really kn
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