Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Members of the Ku Klux Klan, referred to by President Johnson 3/26 as a “hooded society of bigots,” picket a desegregated hotel here in a 1964 file photo. At bottom, a Negro youth, wearing the button of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),is almost surrounded by Klansmen as he tries to gain admittance to a park in which the Klan is holding a rally, in a 1964 file photo.
Members of the Ku Klux Klan, referred to by President Johnson 3/26 as a “hooded society of bigots,” picket a desegregated hotel here in a 1964 file photo. At bottom, a Negro youth, wearing the button of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),is almost surrounded by Klansmen as he tries to gain admittance to a park in which the Klan is holding a rally, in a 1964 file photo.
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Members of the Ku Klux Klan, referred to by President Johnson 3/26 as a “hooded society of bigots,” picket a desegregated hotel here in a 1964 file photo. At bottom, a Negro youth, wearing the button of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),is almost surrounded by Klansmen as he tries to gain admittance to a park in which the Klan is holding a rally, in a 1964 file photo.

United Press International · [ca. March 1964]

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