THE FIERY CROSS

JAMES R. VENABLE

IMPERIAL GIANT

NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN

JAMES R. VENABLE, AN ATTORNEY AT LAW, WAS A PERSONAL FRIEND OF COLONEL SIMMONS AND DR. GREEN. HIS FAMILY OWNED STONE MOUNTAIN IN GEORGIA,THE LOCATION OF THE KLAN'S TWO GREAT REVIVALS. THE KLAN GROUP THAT HE  EVENTUALLY FORMED BECAME KNOWN AS THE NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, AND HE RAN THE NKKKK LIKE THE I.W. COLONEL SIMMONS RAN THE KLAN, WITH THE SAME REGALIA, EMBLEMS, DEGREES, AND KLANKRAFT. HE RAN THE NKKKK UP UNTIL HIS DEATHBED. 

THE PRESENT IMPERIAL WIZARD OF THE CHURCH OF THE NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN,REVEREND RAY LARSEN,JOINED THE GEORGIA KNIGHTS ON SEPTEMBER 14,1960 AND WAS TAKEN INTO THE UNITED KLANS OF AMERICA BY THE LATE IMPERIAL WIZARD,ROBERT M. SHELTON. HE REMAINED WITH THE UKA UNTIL JAMES R. VENABLE CAME TO ELKHART INDIANA TO RECRUIT HIM IN 1975. REVERAND LARSEN ROSE TO GRAND DRAGON OF INDIANA FOR THE NATIONAL KNIGHTS UNTIL JAMES VENABLE WAS READY TO RETIRE AND TURNED THE KEYS OVER TO REVERAND LARSEN IN AUGUST 1993. REVERAND LARSEN, WANTING TO GET THE NATIONAL KNIGHTS RECOGNIZED AS A CHURCH HAD THE CHURCH OF THE NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN INCORPORATED IN 2000. WE NOW HAVE OPENED MEMBERSHIP IN 24 DIFFERENT WHITE NATIONS.