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The_Hutchinson News
May_30, 1922
Roy Elonza Davis, Sr. was reared in Texas, but he did not remain there for the
largest portion of his life. After being caught cheating and swindling the
people of Texas in 1917, he fled to Georgia posing as a travelling evangelist
and singer under the alias Lon Davis. He tried to settle down in Acworth,
GA, but was removed from the congregation for conduct unbecoming a
minister.
Soon after, and under his real name of Reverend Roy. E. Davis, he began
holding lectures to promote the interests of the Ku Klux Klan. Filling
convention halls and collecting sign-up fees, Davis began asking followers to
support his political agenda. According to Davis, the Klan were not as bad as
the skeptics had made them to be. He claimed that the Ku Klux Klan was
not anti-negro, Jewish, or catholic and that the Klan favored white
supremacy but by lawful and peaceful means.
At the time, Davis was the chief editor of the
Brickbat, a newspaper published in Meigs,
Georgia, as well as the head of the Georgia
Farmers Union. Davis began spreading his
propaganda through the publication, and
suddenly found himself in trouble with the
Georgia criminal system. He was arrested on
charges of criminal libel against one Katy Lee
Kirk.
After it was made public that Davis was
spreading false information, his reputation
began to quickly fade. People began to
question his motives and intentions. Some went
so far as to hire a private investigator to follow
the minister on his evangelistic trips, and were
shocked to learn that the Reverend Roy E. Davis
who lived in Georgia was living a dual life in
multiple cities and states of the U. S.
In Macon, Georgia, it was announced that Davis
would no longer be operating as head of the
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Georgia Farmers union. A dual committee was
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gathered to review the findings of the
investigation, and decided that he would be
fired immediately.
Davis left Georgia, singing and evangelizing in multiple states across the
country. His advertised trail leads through North and South Carolina,
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