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...Pine Mountain, 37 miles from Columbus, Ga., a group of men awaited their initiation into the Ku Klux Klan one night last week. One by one they were summoned, unsheeted, into a tar-paper shack to "take the obligation." When the last man had been called, three still remained outside. They had not been invited; they were three newsmen from the Columbus Ledger who had been tipped that this was to be the biggest Ku Klux Klan gathering around Columbus in 20 years...
...Democratic primary, and 400 Negroes had registered to vote. Two hundred and forty-nine men & women climbed solemnly out of the cars, holding black oilcloth bags. Heads down* to evade the gaze of curious bystanders, they took out the white sheets and sugar-sack masks of the Ku Klux Klan and hurriedly pulled them on. Then, in slow single file, they marched to the paved square before the town's dilapidated courthouse, where a crowd of 700 waited to applaud...
...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...
Last month in Lakeview, Ga., men of the same mental stamp as those who made up Hitler's Sturmabteilung, the local Ku Klux Klan, were attempting the same sort of intimidation. You quote [TIME, Feb. 16] the law enforcement officer of the county, Sheriff Jim Moreland, as saying: "I'm just as scared of the Ku Klux Klan as you are." Further, he advised the victim to conduct himself in a manner more pleasing to the Klan. Shades of the Munich Brown House...
Bowland called on Sheriff Jim Moreland of Catoosa County. The sheriff stroked his chin and said: "I'm just as scared of the Ku Klux Klan as you are." He advised Bowland to conduct himself in a manner more pleasing to the Klan...