Clem Davies (minister)
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Clement Llewellyn Davies (December 3, 1890 – December 21, 1951) was a Canadian Christian minister and recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Davies pastored Centennial Church in Victoria, British Columbia through the 1920s where he preached British Israelism and an early version of Christian Identity Theology.[1] He became affiliated with the KKK by the early 1920s and recruited members though his church. In the 1930, Davies spent time in the area of Milwaukee, Wisconsin preaching. In 1933, he began to travel and speak regularly outside the 1933 Chicago World's Fair where he promoted the Christian Identity Theology and defended the KKK. Davies was a speaker at the Anglo-Saxon Federation Meeting in March 1940 that was organized by Gordon Lindsay in Vancouver, British Columbia.[2][3]
Davies began traveling and ministering in the United States and Canada throughout the 1940s through the sponsorship of Tatos Kardashian. During 1947, Kardashian sponsored joint events featuring both Davis and Avok Hagopian, an Iranian faith healer with the same sponsors. The pair traveled the United States holding joint appearances.[4]
Sources
[edit]- ^ Roy, Patricia (2003). The Oriental Question. UBC Press. p. 80. ISBN 0774810106.
- ^ Elliot, David Raymond (1989). Studies of Eight Canadian Fundamentalists. University of British Columbia. pp. 241–276.
- ^ "Annual Conference of Anglo-Saxon Christian World Movement". Vancouver Times. August 17, 1940.
- ^ United Press (September 16, 1947). "Avak to Conduct Healings in L.A.". LA Times.