Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›The News Spotlight has once more been focused upon the activities of that secret organization, the Ku Klux Klan, which for several years has been lying dormant. The recent allegations that Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black was a member of the society prompted various factions to an investigation of the matter. This exclusive picture, made at an initiation ceremony of the East Point, Ga., Klan No. 51, at Ben Hill, brings to you one of the most sacred rites in the workings of this clandestine organization.
The News Spotlight has once more been focused upon the activities of that secret organization, the Ku Klux Klan, which for several years has been lying dormant. The recent allegations that Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black was a member of the society prompted various factions to an investigation of the matter. This exclusive picture, made at an initiation ceremony of the East Point, Ga., Klan No. 51, at Ben Hill, brings to you one of the most sacred rites in the workings of this clandestine organization.
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The News Spotlight has once more been focused upon the activities of that secret organization, the Ku Klux Klan, which for several years has been lying dormant. The recent allegations that Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black was a member of the society prompted various factions to an investigation of the matter. This exclusive picture, made at an initiation ceremony of the East Point, Ga., Klan No. 51, at Ben Hill, brings to you one of the most sacred rites in the workings of this clandestine organization.

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · [ca. October 1937]

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