Hooded Ku Klux Klansmen, led by a special security guard, formed a circle around a blazing 25-foot cross at a KKK rally near Salisbury, N.C. About 2,000 persons attending the rally heard Imperial Wizard Robert M. Shelton of Tuscaloosa, Ala., blame the current civil rights movement on Communists.

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Hooded Ku Klux Klansmen, led by a special security guard, formed a circle around a blazing 25-foot cross at a KKK rally near Salisbury, N.C. About 2,000 persons attending the rally heard Imperial Wizard Robert M. Shelton of Tuscaloosa, Ala., blame the current civil rights movement on Communists.

[ca. September 1963]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Ku Klux Klan

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