PHOTO CREDIT BROOME COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY . AMERICA FIRST: Binghamton Was The State Capital for the Ku Klux Klan in New York State for 5 Years. The Forgotten Kapital: The Ku Klux Klan in Binghamton, New York, 1923-1928 by Jay L. Rubin. Binghamton was home to the New York State headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan. Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans was the Ku Klux Klan's Imperial Wizard and Imperial Cyclops from Nov 1922 through to June 10th 1939, KKK boss Hiram Evans frequented Binghamton NY during that time frame. In the 1920s, Membership in the KKK reached several million people almost exclusively white, native-born, Protestant women and men like in Binghamton NY. And in communities where the KKK really took root like in Tennessee, "this meant that a very sizable part of the eligible population was in the Klan." The KKK was even successful at "block recruiting" of whole clubs or congregations at one time.   During the 1920s, a resurgent KKK moved North with their white s...