Word: klavern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Written by a Post-Gazette Reporter named Ray Sprigle, the first article in the series told that Supreme Court Justice Black had put on his white robes to take the Klan oath in the Klavern of Robert E. Lee Klan No. 1 in Birmingham in 1923; that in 1925, more than a year before the Senatorial primaries in which he defeated anti-Klan Senator Oscar W. Underwood, Hugo Black got Alabama's Grand Dragon and Great Titans to pledge him their support for the U. S. Senate; that the next step in the Black campaign was to write...