The Good Citizen
Cover page July 1926
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| Editor | Bishop Alma White |
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| Staff writers | Alma White, Arthur Kent White, Ray Bridwell White, Charles William Bridwell (1872-1952), Albert L. Wolfram (1877-1962), L. S. Noblitt, Minnie Noblitt |
| Categories | Religious, Political |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Pillar of Fire Church |
| First issue | 1913 |
| Final issue | 1933 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Zarephath, New Jersey |
| Language | English |
The Good Citizen was a sixteen-page monthly political periodical edited by Bishop Alma White and illustrated by Reverend Branford Clarke.The Good Citizen was published from 1913 until 1933 by the Pillar of Fire Church at their headquarters in Zarephath, New Jersey in the United States. White used the publication to expose "political Romanism in its efforts to gain the ascendancy in the U.S."
In 1915 the publication's anti-Catholic rhetoric aroused the local population in Plainfield, New Jersey and a mob formed to threaten the Pillar of Fire Church. By 1921 the publication was a strong supporter of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Good Citizen espoused the political views of Alma White and consisted of essays, speeches and cartoons promoting women's equality, anti-Catholicism, antisemitism, nativism, white supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan. The tract also contained numerous topically provocative illustrations by Reverend Branford Clarke.
According to Wyn Craig Wade in his 1998 book The Fiery Cross:
[Alma White] was also probably the most active and prolific fundamentalist minister in the 1920s. ... Her value to the Klan, however, came from her viciously anti-Catholic magazine, The Good Citizen, and her easily readable theological tracts that simultaneously found scriptural support for the Invisible Empire [the KKK] and excoriation for the Catholic Church. ... Her books abounded with conspiracy themes: "We hail the K.K.K. in the great movement that is now on foot ... Were it not that the press is throttled by Rome and her Hebrew allies, astounding revelations would be made, showing the public the necessity for the rising of the Heroes of the Fiery Cross."
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