Word: klansmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make a living from it changed its character. It was on top of Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., that the Klan's 34 adventurous founders met on Thanksgiving Day, 1915, to swear their tremendous oath, but last week it was in stuffy meeting halls and hackneyed offices that Klansmen met to obey the following "edict" of Emperor and Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans...
During the week, Governor Smith had occasion, to express himself on one more topic. Some Ku Klux Klansmen in Queens, N. Y., asked him to punish their municipal authorities for breaking up a Klan parade. Governor Smith answered that he could not act but that he hoped justice would be done. He also said: "I regard the purposes of your organization with abhorrence...
...Klansmen stirred angrily and talked of getting behind loud-voiced Senator Heflin of Alabama (who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope) on a "third ticket." Senator Heflin expressed surprise, but said: "I have been urged by any number of people to run for President...
Married. W. Lee Smith, 32, Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klu Klux Klan; to Katharine Halbig, 24; secretly, after eloping; at Louisville, Ill. Indiana Klansmen, discovering last week that the bride is a Roman Catholic, were reported to be "in a rage...
Georgia is often listed as the centre of the flogging and lynching belt; Atlanta is the home of the K.K.K.; many of the state's politicians, from Governor Walker and Representative "Willie" Upshaw down, are Klansmen...