The Pottsville Republican, of 30 June 1927, reported on a Ku Klux Klan event for the 4th of July – a parade of Klansmen in Minersville.
Klan Parades at Minersville
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan will participate in the Fourth of July Parade in Minersville at 9:30 a.m. Pottsville Unit leaves hall at 8 a.m. sharp. Visors down.
“Visors down” indicated that the Klansmen would have their faces covered.
How many more communities with Fourth of July parades had Klan groups march in them?
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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News article from Newspapers.com.
This post was first published on The Civil War Blog on 11 October 2018/