NORMAN How much was Edwin DeBarr involved in the Ku Klux Klan?

University of Oklahoma regents believed the connection was strong enough to censure him.

"The alleged connection of Dr. Edwin DeBarr, Vice President of the University of Oklahoma, with the Ku Klux Klan was in direct violation of the policy of the University of Oklahoma ... " wrote OU Board of Regents chairman H.L. Muldrow in an Aug. 5, 1922, statement.

The OU regents cited DeBarr for "pernicious political activity" and "for public utterances attacking certain classes of citizenship of Oklahoma."