Talk:Reuben H. Sawyer

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These is a lot more in Balmer, Randall (2002) that can be used.Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:06, 24 April 2017 (UTC) Encyclopaedia of Evangelicalism. Randall Herbert Balmer. Baylor Univ. Press, Waco, Tex, 2004, ISBN 9781932792041, p. 602. ''Religion and the racist right. The origins of the Christian identity movement''. Michael Barkun. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1997, ISBN 0807846384. Reuben H. Sawyer in the database of Find a Grave (English) Standard data (person): LCCN : no2002062095 | VIAF : 34126734 | Wikipedia person search
 * Randall Balmer, Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2002. pp. 654. ISBN 0-664-22409-I)"Sawyer, Reuben H. (1866-c. 1937) An advocate of ^British Israelism and a leader in the *Ku Ki.ux Klan, Reuben 11. Sawyer was pastor of the East Side Christian Church in Portland. Oregon, which he used as a base to propagate his supremacist views until he resigned the pastorate early in 1921. Sawyer lectured widely throughout the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia. In 1919 he helped in the formation of the British-Israel World Federation, and he addressed the organizations first gathering in 1920 in London. In addition to his work on behalf of ^British ISRAtiLiSM, Sawyer promoted the *Ku Klux Klan. On December 22, 1921. for example, he addressed six thousand people at Portland’s Municipal Auditorium. assuring his auditors that the Klan stood for “acleansed and purified Americanism where law-abiding citizens will be respected and their rights defended, irrespective of race, religion or color so long as they make an honest effort to be Americans, and Americans only.” Sawyer also briefly headed the women’s auxiliary of the Oregon Klan. the Ladies of the Invisible Empire (LOTIES), beginning in 1922."

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" The transformation of warmly philosemitic British Israelism into dangerously anti-Semitic Christian Identity is in itself almost an accident of history, the result of its adoption by religious and political activists whose thinking was already moving along racist lines. Among those earliest writers responsible for this development was Reuben H. Sawyer (b. 1866), a minister in Portland, Oregon, where he led an active Anglo-Israel Research Society. Sawyer lectured throughout the Northwest and helped establish the British Israel World Federation in London in 1920. At the same time, Sawyer found the leisure to serve as leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Oregon from 1921 to 1924."  Doug Weller talk 12:54, 25 April 2017 (UTC)