By Logan Wells, News Director | Logan@kymnradio.net
Tonight, the Northfield Public Library will host local historian and librarian Nancy Vaillancourt for a presentation titled: Minnesota’s Hooded History of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Minnesota.
As reported previously by the Minnesota Star Tribune, Vaillancourt is a longtime Steele County librarian who retired in August of 2024. Since then she has spent more time investigating the KKK in Southern Minnesota. In her research, she found that Albert Lea hosted the first major statewide rally in 1923, along with other events and rallies in Austin, Faribault, and Owatonna in the 1920s. Vaillancourt will include information on Northfield’s Klan presence, including the 1925 Konklave on Bridge Square.
The event is free and open to the public, but the library does ask that interested attendees register beforehand since seating for the event is limited. Register here.
The event starts tonight at 6pm in the Bunday Room of the Northfield Public Library.
