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1915, Stone Mountain, p2

which had been generated from the smash hit film, "Birth of a Nation". (Paha Sapa and the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s). Borglum's role within the KKK was serious enough that he sat upon the 1923 KKK council which oversaw the transfer of Klan leadership to Imperial Grand Wizard Hiram Evans (kelticklankirk.com).

Also notable at this time period, Gutzon Borglum became a Lifetime member of the newly reformed Ku Klux Klan (Wizards & Prominent Klansmen), which provided a majority of the funding for the Stone Mountain project thanks to the revenues

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