Inside the 'Kool Koast Kamp': Brochure shamelessly advertises the Ku Klux Klan Texas summer resort where white supremacists went to relax in the 1920s

In the summer of 1924 there was said to be no place 'kooler' than the Ku Klux Klan's 'Kool Koast Kamp' - strictly depending on who you asked.

Seen in a shocking brochure advertising a four-month resort to KKK members outside the coastal community of Rockport, Texas, is the Klansmens' self-described 'Healthiest road to the Koolest Summer.'



Set between a monstrous cross and rippling waves along the shore, guests are illustrated bathing and lying along the beach before tents and boardwalks strictly for white, conservative Christians.

The Kool Koast Kamp: A pamphlet from 1924 shows a coastal retreat by the Klansmen of Texas offering members overnight stays for one dollar per day

Budget resort: The retreat set between a monstrous cross and rippling waves along the shoreline hoped to compare itself to the shores of Atlantic City but at a budget

'So Cool, so Restful. No work whatsoever. No Drudgery. No worry. The Fiery Cross guards you at nights and an officer of the law, the same Christian sentiment, guards carefully all portals,' it advertises while hoping to compare itself to the shores of Atlantic City and Palm Beach.



The four-page brochure promises guests at a dollar per day everything from swimming and fishing, to 'watermelon parties' under shaded beaches.

Though everyone from 'wonderful mothers' to 'beautiful' daughters are noted as welcome and cared for, there are those obviously not according to history but not in the flowery-worded print seen.



At the height of their time in the early 20s, the new Klan boasted about two million members fighting racial animosity with the end of World War I intensifying some American's hatred of Jews, blacks and Catholics, according to the Texas State Historical Association.

Invites: Everyone from 'wonderful mothers' to 'beautiful' daughters are noted as welcome but there are those obviously not according to history and not in the flowery-worded print seen

Pressure: The pamphlet ends with a turn in slight intimidation to those who may just be KKK-card bearing members and not active participants willing to attend a retreat like theirs

Gradually the growing violence attributed to the Klan caused resentment, however, and with it a number of anti-Klan organizations in 1922 across the state.



Reacting, Dallas' 'imperial wizard' or national leader Hiram Wesley Evans worked to change its image.



Among his efforts he worked to diminish the use of Klan regalia except at Klan-sponsored events and increased political chairs.



But by 1923, one year before this unique retreat was formed, internal dissension and anti-Klan groups swelled to be too much, drastically weakening the group's members.

Qualified guests: A midnight meeting of the American white supremicist movement, the Ku Klux Klan are seen around a burning cross in November of 1922 Hatred: A typical initiation to the Ku Klux Klan from November 1922

By 1928 the membership had declined to approximately 2,500.

The pamphlet ends with a turn in slight intimidation to those accused to be mere KKK-card bearing members and not active participants willing to attend a retreat like theirs, even at such a described minimal cost.



'...this is sponsored by a great Order that does great things and the question is will you be a true member of that Order and co-operate to send all those "would-be's" down here and we will show them ourselves with the masks off,' the pamphlet reads.