Barry Goldwater's father, Morris Goldwater, converted from Judaism to Episcopalianism when he married Hattie Williams in 1907. The standard for the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s was to restrict membership to native born white male Protestants, which, after his conversion, Morris Goldwater ws. Records of the Ku Klux Klan in Butte, Montana, reflect several members with clearly Irish names: Sullivan, Cavanaugh, Kelley. There are several instances of correspondence with a woman named Cohn, a surname often associated with Jews. (source: http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv96117) Despite strong Klan activity in California and Colorado, Arizona was not a stronghold of the organization's activity in the 1920s. Governor George Hunt cracked down on the KKK in the Grand Canyon State, and the state legislature passed an antimask law about a year after its activities began. For the most part, the Klan was little more than a social club. (Source:
Hooded Americanism by David M. Chalmers (1965)). Even the picture, assuming it is not photoshopped, hardly looks like a picket line but a parade.
Do you have any evidence that the Klan staged any boycotts of the Goldwater Department Store in the 1920s?
Do you have any evidence that the Klan staged any boycotts of the Goldwater Department Store in the 1920s?...Even the picture, assuming it is not photoshopped, hardly looks like a picket line but a parade. Only the photograph of the KKK picketing the Goldwater Dept. Store and documentation in the Arizona State Historical Archives which may or may not be on the web.
Did the University of Arizona photoshop (right click the photo for properties before making accusations like that) the photo, I haven't seen the original so I can't say, but I suspect they didn't, it's just more Ron Paul nuttiness.
Might be a parade, those kluckers were big on parades, a joyful bunch they are.