Anti-Yellow Dog Club
The Anti-Yellow Dog Clubs were American anti-seditionist clubs during World War I inspired by Henry Irving Dodge's story "The Yellow Dog", which first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post on March 4, 1918. Members of these clubs wielded the story's definition on their quest to confront "yellow dogs". There were thousands of these clubs across the US, and they were the target of both support and scorn. Total membership was in the millions. The clubs were endorsed by political figures including Theodore Roosevelt. They were promoted in concert with both the book edition of the story and its movie adaptation. Movie theater owners started promoting the clubs before production on the film had even started, as an advance publicity campaign.