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Episode 28: The Girl with the Dragon…Bite Marks. How Madge took down the grand dragon of the KKK.
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Did you know that 100 years ago, there was a woman whose dying declaration began the demise of the KKK? Listen to us discuss how Madge Oberholtzer endured unsolicited love-bombing by the grand-dragon of the KKK and was tortured when she didn't give into his desires. Her last words unraveled the the organization when members exited, en masse, after hearing her account of what happened.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Oberholtzer
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097127/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/murder-wasnt-very-pretty-the-rise-and-fall-of-dc-stephenson-18935042/
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