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...Luker, an owner of a Talladega furniture store-and of the maroon Chevrolet. The charge: murder "with malice aforethought." Police later picked up Louis Harrison, Cyclops of the Pell City Klan and athletic director of the big Avondale textile mills. He gave cops a list of members in his Klavern. This time it looked as if the Klan might not get away with its reign of terror...
Boyd Killingsworth, a gangly youth, admitted that the raid had originated at a meeting of the Adamsville klavern presided over by Brownie's brother. "We stopped by the highway and robed up," said Killingsworth. At the McDanal house, "I helped direct traffic...
Georgia's Grand Dragon Samuel Green, the demagogic Atlanta physician, had branched out and set up a Klavern of 25 or 30 members in the growing cotton town of Thomson (pop. 5,000), Ga. Last week an ad, signed by 104 residents of Thomson (including most of the members of the city council and the chief of police), appeared in the town's weekly newspaper, the McDuffie Progress. What Thomson's leading citizens had to say was that their Ku Klux neighbors had better put away their bed sheets...
...prodding Georgia newsmen, Toombs County Sheriff R. E. Gray first reported that Mallard had been killed by men wearing "some white stuff." The Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, Dr. Samuel Green of Atlanta, who insisted the local Klan robes were all locked up that night in the Klavern, opened his own investigation. Soon he had statements from Toombs County law enforcement officers, including Sheriff Gray, exonerating the Klan. Said the sheriff: "This Negro was a bad Negro, as I have had dealings with him. I further know that this Negro was hated by all who knew...
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...