Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
Klan Plays Santa to Ex-Slave-Jack Riddle, 107-year-old former slave and his wife, Josey, 86, receive a radio as an unexpected Christmas present from the Ku Klux Klan. On his birthday recently the Talladega, Ala., man said all he lacked was a radio so he could “hear the preachers.”
Associated Press · [ca. December 1948]
[Information from item housing] Ku Klux Klan
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