Maine Scene--Sheriff's Deputy Carl Churchill displays Ku Klux Klan cape and hood he cut down from 20 feet up the utility pole near a beach at Hollis, Me., where a Negro was told on Friday to keep his family away from white people. The Klan in the 30's claimed it had 25,000 members in Maine.
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Maine Scene--Sheriff's Deputy Carl Churchill displays Ku Klux Klan cape and hood he cut down from 20 feet up the utility pole near a beach at Hollis, Me., where a Negro was told on Friday to keep his family away from white people. The Klan in the 30's claimed it had 25,000 members in Maine.

Associated Press · [ca. August 1963]

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