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...their time, the Shelton gang had been responsible for scores of violent deaths. They were whiskey runners, saloon keepers and slot-machine operators. They fought the Ku Klux Klan, fought the law, bought up sheriffs. But mostly they battled a tough, boastful gangster named Charley Birger...
...Three thousand robed and hooded members of the Ku Klux Klan gathered in a field near Stone Mountain, Ga. for the largest Klan ceremony since 1924 (see cut). They fired up oil buckets hung on a cross of iron pipe, initiated 700 new members, and cheered a prediction by Grand Dragon Samuel Green that "blood would flow in the streets" if civil rights for Negroes were enforced in the South...
...with poetic sentiment. He absorbed the attitude of the post-bellum Southerner to the Nouhern carpetbagger and the problems of the new freed men. When his talents and his viewpoint merged in The Birth of a Nation, a story of the Civil War, the Reconstruction and the first Ku Klux Klan, the cinema had its first "colossal." But on the heels of the picture came race riots and cries of racial bigotry...
...Near Atlanta, a group of Ku Klux Klansmen tied a young construction worker named Joseph Berry to a tree, flogged him with a leather strap until blood vessels burst...
Three Georgia newsmen, framed by the Ku Klux Klan last month, were let down cold by their newspaper last week...