ABSTRACT

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. This book discusses the psychology of the American peoples. It brings together a series of reflections upon the nature of culture and of democracy, upon their bearing to one another in the United States. Cultural growth is founded upon Cultural Pluralism. Cultural Pluralism is possible only in a democratic society whose institutions encourage individuality in groups, in persons, in temperaments, whose program liberates these individualities and guides them into a fellowship of freedom and cooperation. The alternative before Americans is Kultur Klux Klan or Cultural Pluralism. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan has been organized for the purpose of safeguarding and protecting these things in and for America which are fundamental to the greatness of the Nation, are the things for which our Fathers fought and died to preserve and perpetuate in America.