“….Moderate, fraternal-minded or skittish Klansmen… had no stomach for the vituperative anti-Catholicism promoted by Klan lecturers… The Fellowship Forum was a national Klan publication popular in the 1920s.Īuthor Lew Powell Posted on Categories Just A Bite Tags fellowship forum, ku klux klan, wallace nc Leave a comment on Klan table decor: ‘American flags and electric crosses’ NC Klansmen had limits to their anti-Catholicism From “Stage Parade and Naturalization” in the Fellowship Forum (date unknown clipping found at flea market) Several brief talks were made by Klansmen and music was furnished by the Wallace Klan band.” The table was decorated with American flags and electric crosses. “After the ceremony and address, a banquet was served at the Klavern. It was heard with interest by the large audience. One of the National lecturers then discussed the ideals and principles of Klankraft. “A large class of candidates was naturalized, the impressive ceremony being open to the public. The parade was formed at the high school building in the light of a fiery cross and marched through the principal streets of the town, returning to the athletic field near the high school. 38 recently staged a big parade and naturalization ceremony.
The hearings are in response to President Johnson’s call for a congressional investigation of the Klan after the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo in Alabama.Īuthor Lew Powell Posted on OctoCategories On This Day Tags House Un-American Activities Committee, ku klux klan, roy woodle Leave a comment on Ex-member: ‘The Klan don’t have no program’ Klan table decor: ‘American flags and electric crosses’ Woodle is one of more than a dozen Klan witnesses from North Carolina called to testify most refuse.
The Klan has grown, he says, by promising “victory, that the schools wouldn’t integrate. Woodle says he recently quit the Klan after serving as chaplain (grand kludd) for North Carolina. Its true purpose, he says, is furnishing its leaders with “Cadillacs, rib-eye steaks. On this day in 1965: Roy Woodle, bricklayer and itinerant preacher, tells a subcommittee of the House Un-American Activities Committee that the Ku Klux Klan is a “fake” organization that preaches “good things” - segregation and Christianity - but does nothing about them. 2)Īuthor Lew Powell Posted on NovemCategories Just A Bite Tags concord nc, ku klux klan, nc confederate monuments, united daughters of confederacy Leave a comment on Remembering a monument that remembered the Klan Ex-member: ‘The Klan don’t have no program’ From “Time to expose the women still celebrating the Confederacy” by Kali Holloway in the Daily Beast (Nov. Erected by the Dodson-Ramseur chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. “ ‘In commemoration of the “Ku Klux Klan” during the Reconstruction period following the “War Between the States,” this marker is placed on their assembly ground. Writer James Huffman got his hands on a first pressing, in which he noted the monument’s inscription: In 1941, a local division of the group published North Carolina’s Confederate Monuments and Memorials, a book that handily compiles various tributes to the Confederacy from around the state, many of them the UDC’s own handiwork. Though the marker itself seems to have been lost to time-or more precisely, to the urbanization and shrubbery that has sprouted around it-proof of its existence endures thanks to the UDC’s own meticulous record-keeping. “In 1926, the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected a monument to the Ku Klux Klan in a town just outside Charlotte, North Carolina.
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