Ready for Honeymoon--James Earl Taylor, 27, Bessie Irene Tyson, 37, are ready to leave on their honeymoon after Saturday night Ku Klux Klan wedding in a dusty cornfield. The North Carolina Grand Dragon, J. Robert Jones of Granite Quarry is still wearing is robe. Theirs was the first public KKK wedding in North Carolina since 926.

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Ready for Honeymoon--James Earl Taylor, 27, Bessie Irene Tyson, 37, are ready to leave on their honeymoon after Saturday night Ku Klux Klan wedding in a dusty cornfield. The North Carolina Grand Dragon, J. Robert Jones of Granite Quarry is still wearing is robe. Theirs was the first public KKK wedding in North Carolina since 926.

Associated Press · [ca. May 1965]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Ku Klux Klan

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