In 1925, a basketball game in Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, was started with a bomb exploding on a hill near the town. The explosion was attributed to the Ku Klux Klan.
From the Mount Carmel Daily News, February 25, 1925:
KLUXERS GIVE SIGNAL TO OPEN BASKETBALL GAME
The Pottsville Big Five basketball team lost to Tremont at the latter place on Monday evening in one of the roughest games seen in the coal regions in a long time. The final score was 33 to 23 and Tommy Barlow was the outstanding star for the losers, caging four field goals and four tosses from the free line.
The signal for the game was given by the Ku Klux Klan. A bomb was exploded on one of the hills near the town and the battle started.
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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