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After an hour or two, the white-sheeted Klansmen emerged. With them, regal in his green robes, came Georgia's Grand Dragon, Dr. Samuel Green, who is an Atlanta physician in his spare time. The Ledger's photographer, Joe Talbot, 36, stepped forward, started shooting flashbulbs...
When he had finished, the Klansmen paraded back to the ballpark and had a barbecue...
...Last week Georgia's Grand Dragon Samuel Green carefully explained that Ku Klux Klansmen wear masks to protect themselves against the prejudice of Jews, Catholics and foreigners. *Southern man has seldom condemned sexual relations between whites and Negro women; before the Civil War, when mulatto slaves brought high prices, the practice was encouraged. Today, approximately 70% of American Negroes have some white blood...
...hundred and forty miles northwest, in the town of Lakeview, other Klansmen demonstrated how such an organized mob can be directed to the ends of personal and local vengeance. Lakeview High School's athletic coach, Walter Bowland, a 200-lb. exmarine, had had a fight with an ex-student. Both the coach and John Burks, the school's principal, were at outs with the Klan...
That decided Bowland. He collected three shotguns, an automatic rifle and two pistols. He might get shot, he said, but if they came into his yard again, he was going to account for a couple of Klansmen first...