CHARGES AGAINST KU KLUX KLAN
ACTIVITIES OF CLUB IN GEORGIA NEW YORK, June 8. The Assistant-Attorney-General of Gwrgia (Mr D. Duke) said that mem* fes of a Ku Klux Klan Klvalier Klub” in that state P®ly boasted of murder and ■ogging. They recently abducted a negro naval serviceman W Atalanta. Nine men gave him 50 ■wes with a leather whip at the gun s Point, one saying that he had seen a *®ite man struck by a negro soldier T'rseas and he was determined to get Weance. Mr Duke described the Kavaliei as the Klan’s “meat squad.” The members were unknown outside the were chosen for their brawn their willingness as terrorists. The Georgian authorities are investijjjng the recently-revived klan and "fctte to revoke the klan’s charter & hich allows it to exist. _ _ .The Grand Dragon of the klan, Mr Mmuel Green, said that the charges sinst the association of the Georgia which he contended was not the She organisation as the Ku Klux which flourished in the 1920’5, preposterous.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24898, 11 June 1946, Page 5
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