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<p><b>Grand Wizard</b> (auch <i>Imperial Wizard</i>; auf Deutsch <i>Großer/Imperialer Hexenmeister</i>) ist ein im <a href="Ku-Klux-Klan" title="Ku-Klux-Klan">Ku-Klux-Klan</a> vergebener Titel. In der Hierarchie des Ku-Klux-Klans stellt er die höchste Position dar.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Grand/Imperial_Wizards"><span id="Grand.2FImperial_Wizards"></span>Grand/Imperial Wizards</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Nathan_Bedford_Forrest" title="Nathan Bedford Forrest">Nathan Bedford Forrest</a>, Grand Wizard, Reconstruction Klan, 1867–1869<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="William_J._Simmons" class="mw-redirect" title="William J. Simmons">William J. Simmons</a>, Imperial Wizard, Second Klan, 1915–1922<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard, Second Klan, 1922–1939<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>James Colescott, Imperial Wizard, Second Klan, 1939–1944<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Edgar_Ray_Killen" title="Edgar Ray Killen">Edgar Ray Killen</a> (1925–2018), „Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the KKK“<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="David_Duke" title="David Duke">David Duke</a>, Grand Wizard, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1974–1979/1980<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Donald „Don“ Black, Grand Wizard, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1979/1980–1981</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li>Martin, Roger: <i>AmeriKKKa. Der Ku-Klux-Klan und die Ultrarechte in den USA</i>, Rotbuch Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-88022-491-9</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Einzelnachweise">Einzelnachweise</h2></div>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="book">Wyn Craig Wade: <cite class="lang" lang="en" dir="auto" style="font-style:italic">The fiery cross: the Ku Klux Klan in America</cite>. Oxford University Press US, 1998, ISBN 0-19-512357-3 (englisch, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6O_XYBMhNYAC&pg=PA40&hl=en">google.co.uk</a>).<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rfr_id=info:sid/de.wikipedia.org:Grand+Wizard&rft.au=Wyn+Craig%26%2332%3BWade&rft.btitle=The+fiery+cross%3A+the+Ku+Klux+Klan+in+America&rft.date=1998&rft.genre=book&rft.isbn=0195123573&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press+US" style="display:none"> </span></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wade, p.144</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wade, p.188</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wade, p.272</span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK1-4YBh8io">KKK Edgar Ray Killen, sign over all movie/book rights to James Stern, & confess to 32 murders</a> youtube.com, veröffentlicht am 28. Dezember 2011, abgerufen am 12. Januar 2018. Video (11:40) – lt. Begleittext.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="lang" lang="en" dir="auto" style="font-style:italic">The Hatemongers Get a New Tailor</cite>. In: <cite class="lang" lang="en" dir="auto" style="font-style:italic">The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education</cite>. <span style="white-space:nowrap">Band<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em"> </span>14</span>, 1996, <span style="white-space:nowrap">S.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em"> </span>32</span>, <a href="JSTOR" title="JSTOR">JSTOR</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/2962812">2962812</a> (englisch, Winter 1996–97).<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rfr_id=info:sid/de.wikipedia.org:Grand+Wizard&rft.atitle=The+Hatemongers+Get+a+New+Tailor&rft.btitle=The+Journal+of+Blacks+in+Higher+Education&rft.date=1996&rft.genre=book&rft.pages=32&rft.volume=14" style="display:none"> </span></span>
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