Knights of Liberty (vigilante group)
1917–1918 American vigilante group / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the World War I vigilante organization. For the anti-slavery organization, see Knights of Liberty.
The Knights of Liberty (sometimes Liberty Knights, Loyalty Knights, or Knights of Loyalty[1]) was an American volunteer nationalist secret society and vigilance committee active circa 1917–1918, claiming responsibility for violence against perceived disloyalty during World War I. They are known for the 1917 Tulsa Outrage in Oklahoma, the 1918 lynching of Olli Kinkkonen in Minnesota, and a spree of 1918 tarring and feathering events in Wisconsin and California.