During the mid-1920's, as Graves was launching his political career, Bob Jones, Sr. went about trying to raise money for the establishment of a Bible college.

Jones, an Alabama native, was well-known as an evangelist, so it's not unusual that his path crossed that of the future governor.

Bob Sr. successfully recruited Graves, and, according to An Island in the Lake of Fire by Mark Taylor Dalhouse,  the governor used his contacts in the Birmingham business community and on Wall Street to secure capital for the school (page 37).

The questions of  (a) whether Bob Sr. ever held membership in the Klan, and (b) whether Klan money helped establish BoJo remain unanswered.  There is no direct evidence of such. But there is evidence that Jones was a paid spokesman for the Klan, according to Glenn Feldman, an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and author of Politics, Society and the Klan in Alabama: 1915-1949. The book recounts how Jones "traveled the state espousing Klan views and once accepted a $1,600 donation from a south Alabama Klan group after speaking."

So an historian tells us that the Klan welcomed Bob Jones, Sr. as a speaker and that Jones accepted Klan money.  We also know that Jones was a friend and business associate of a KKK leader who helped raise funds for the school.  Furthermore, this former klansman served on BoJo's Board of Trustees, and a dormitory bears his name. You may connect the dots yourself.

Bob Sr. denounced Billy Graham for making common cause with Catholics and liberal Protestants. Yet Jones made common cause with the KKK. If hypocrisy of that magnitude doesn't make your brain do the hucklebuck, maybe this will: