In 1931, the Ku Klux Klan was less active in the Lykens Valley area than it had been in the mid-1920s. However, there are examples of the continued presence of the Klan into the 1930’s as can be seen by this news brief from the Elizabethville Echo, August 13, 1931:
TRI-COUNTY KLAN PICNIC HERE SATURDAY
A tri-county meeting and picnic of the Ku Klux Klan will be held in Elizabethville‘s Memorial Park, all day Saturday, August 15th.
Competitive drills, addresses and naturalization ceremonies are scheduled. The meeting is for members in Northumberland, Lebanon and Dauphin Counties.
Unfortunately, no follow-up article indicating success or failure of the event was found in the Echo or any other Pennsylvania newspaper.
This post is a continuation of the reporting on hate groups that were active in the Lykens Valley area. It was a widely known fact that the Ku Klux Klan had a significant presence in the Lykens Valley and adjacent valleys during the early years of the 20th Century. This iteration of the Klan was strongly white supremacist and was opposed to equal rights for African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants.
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