A. L. Clark: Spokane's Outspoken Klan Critic

Abraham Lincoln (A. L.) Clark, born 1866, was a logging contractor, managing A. L. Clark & Company contracting out of St Marie’s Idaho. Clark was a former protestant clergyman and often wrote opinion letters to the Spokesman Review on a variety of political topics up until his death in 1938. Notably, Clark is one of the first voices in Spokane to speak out against the Klan from a non-anonymous seat. Clark Spoke publicly against the Klan numorous times and wrote extensively against the Klan, going so far as to publish a book opposing the Klan and investigating their presence in Spokane in 1924.