Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Firey Cross Burns on Georgia Courthouse Lawn--Hooded members of the resurgent Ku Klux Klan burned a cross on the lawn of the Emanuel County Courthouse here as they marched in full regalia for the first time since the hey day of the invisible empire in the twenties.
Firey Cross Burns on Georgia Courthouse Lawn--Hooded members of the resurgent Ku Klux Klan burned a cross on the lawn of the Emanuel County Courthouse here as they marched in full regalia for the first time since the hey day of the invisible empire in the twenties.
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Firey Cross Burns on Georgia Courthouse Lawn--Hooded members of the resurgent Ku Klux Klan burned a cross on the lawn of the Emanuel County Courthouse here as they marched in full regalia for the first time since the hey day of the invisible empire in the twenties.

Associated Press · [ca. February 1948]

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