Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Cross Burned at KKK Rally--A 30-foot high cross was ignited by James Venable, Atlanta, Ga., Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan at an Ohio ‘education’ rally at a nearby farm here tonight. Only scattered applause came from some 300 person present as Venable applied a torch to the pre-soaked cross. The four day meeting is billed as a revival of the secret Klan in Ohio.
Cross Burned at KKK Rally--A 30-foot high cross was ignited by James Venable, Atlanta, Ga., Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan at an Ohio ‘education’ rally at a nearby farm here tonight. Only scattered applause came from some 300 person present as Venable applied a torch to the pre-soaked cross. The four day meeting is billed as a revival of the secret Klan in Ohio.
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Cross Burned at KKK Rally--A 30-foot high cross was ignited by James Venable, Atlanta, Ga., Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan at an Ohio ‘education’ rally at a nearby farm here tonight. Only scattered applause came from some 300 person present as Venable applied a torch to the pre-soaked cross. The four day meeting is billed as a revival of the secret Klan in Ohio.

Associated Press · [ca. May 1965]

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