Tumultuous Time

ID: 2996 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Texas Collection; James Michael Davis, “Horace Sherman Miller and the US Klans” (MA Thesis, Baylor University, 1989), Baylor University Texas Collection, Waco, TX.
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Tumultuous Time

While on a railroad job in Houston in 1937, Horace Sherman Miller and a woman named Clara Porter were struck by lightning while on a walk. Porter died as a result of the injuries, and Miller believed that the lightning strike caused his tuberculosis, though no medical expert ever corroborated that belief.

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By Allie R. Lopez & Benna Vaughan
Once considered a hub for racist activity, Waco served as headquarters for writer and editor Horace Sherman Miller. An avowed white supremacist, Miller perpetuated and propagated racist ideas in the mid-twentieth century. He printed his newsletter,…