In Media
- A film based on the movement called Black Legion was released in 1937 by Warner Brothers and starred Humphrey Bogart.
- The April 1, 1937 episode of True Detective Mysteries, a radio show based on the magazine of the same title, was based directly on the Black Legion and the murder of Poole.
- The March 20, 1938, episode of the radio show The Shadow, with Orson Welles in the title role, was entitled "The White Legion"; it was based loosely on the Black Legion movement.
- Mentioned as being active in Lansing, Michigan during the 1920's and 1930's in the The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
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