Daisy Douglas Barr, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American minister and political activist
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About Daisy Douglas Barr
- Daisy Douglas Barr (September 2, 1875 – April 3, 1938) was Imperial Empress (leader) of the Indiana Women's Ku Klux Klan (WKKK) in the early 1920s and an active member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
- People were associated with both the KKK and the WCTU because the Ku Klux Klan was a very strong supporter and defender of temperance and National Prohibition.
- Professionally, she was a Quaker minister in two prominent churches, First Friends Church of New Castle, Indiana and Friends Memorial Church in Muncie, Indiana.
- She served as the vice-chair of the Republican Committee in Indiana as well as president of the Indiana War Mother's organization.
- She was killed in a car wreck and her funeral was held in a Friends meeting.
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