The author of a best-selling history of the Ku Klux Klan speaks in Evansville Wednesday night. WNIN’s John Gibson has a preview:
Timothy Egan is the author of “A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take over America, and the Women Who Stopped Them.”
Egan will launch the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library’s 2025 Speak series with a free community event at 7 p.m. Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church at Second and Mulberry streets.
Egan’s book describes the Klan’s rise in Indiana during the early 20th Century, with a number of references to Evansville.
The author will discuss the book and how the racist group grew in the “uniquely American state of Indiana.”
EVPL Director of Programming and Outreach Ericka Qualls Barnett says the book teaches us about the rapid rise of racial, religious and ethnic hate among Hoosiers “not long ago.”
More: The EVPL says Egan's book was among the top circulating titles in the library system in 2024.