 Cover page July 1926 | |
| Editor | Bishop Alma White |
|---|---|
| Staff writers | Alma White, Arthur Kent White, Ray Bridwell White, Charles William Bridwell (1872-1952), Albert L. Wolfram (1877-1962), L. S. Noblitt, Minnie Noblitt |
| Categories | Religious, Political |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Pillar of Fire Church |
| First issue | 1913 |
| Final issue | 1933 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Zarephath, New Jersey |
| Language | English |
The Good Citizen was a sixteen-page monthly political periodical edited by Bishop Alma White and illustrated by Reverend Branford Clarke.[1] The Good Citizen was published from 1913 until 1933 by the Pillar of Fire Church at their headquarters in Zarephath, New Jersey in the United States. White used the publication to expose "political Romanism in its efforts to gain the ascendancy in the U.S."[1][2]
In 1915, the publication's anti-Catholic rhetoric aroused the local population in Plainfield, New Jersey and a mob formed to threaten the Pillar of Fire Church.[3] By 1921, the publication was a strong supporter of the Ku Klux Klan.[4][5]
- ^ a b Susie Cunningham Stanley (1993). Feminist Pillar of Fire: The Life of Alma White. The Pilgrim Press. p. 162. ISBN 0-8298-0950-3.
... Good Citizen as "God's mouthpiece for exposing political Romanism in its efforts to gain the ascendancy in the United States." ... Drawings by Pillar of Fire member Branford Clarke illustrated the periodical. Predominantly political in content, Clarke's sketches encouraged women to vote ...
- ^ Kathleen M. Blee (1991). Women of the Klan. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07876-5.
White saw her periodical, the Good Citizen, as a mouthpiece for "exposing political Romanism in its efforts to gain the ascendancy in the ...
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Bishop White praised the Klan by sermon, book, and in the church's Good Citizen publication.
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