Members of the KKK had never been successfully tried and convicted for acts of violence in this country until Dan Moody came along.
Before he became the 30th governor of Texas, Moody was the first prosecutor in the nation to successfully take on and convict members of the KKK. In the 1920s, the 29-year-old Moody was the district attorney in Williamson County, north of Austin.
His story is told in the book Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan by Houston author Patricia Bernstein. Patricia Bernstein tells us more about Dan Moody and the stand he took against the KKK.
- Before becoming governor of Texas, Dan Moody was the first prosecutor in the nation to successfully try and convict members of the Ku Klux Klan. His story is told in Patricia Bernstein's book Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan. (Photo Credit: Library of Congress)
- Members of the Ku Klux Klan parading in Beaumont, 1921. (Photo Credit: Courtesy Patricia Bernstein)
- A KKK initiation rally photographed in Houston, 1921. (Photo Credit: Courtesy Patricia Bernstein)
- Houston writer Patricia Bernstein is the author of Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan and The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP. (Photo Credit: Courtesy Patricia Bernstein)
