Thousand Klans News Today

Pennsylvania avenue you. that was their show of force in 1925. and then a year later they decided to come back and do it again, but this time even bigger. in the fall of 1926, september 1926, the ku klux klan held what they called their concave, their national conclave in washington, d.c., second time they rallieds thousands strong in d.c. in two straight years. when they turned up in 1926, they turned out 50,000 masked, robed klansmen who marched in formation through washington, d.c. most of th...

Seen them, i still have a hard time believing that that show of klan force in washington, d.c., i still have a hard time believing its real. but that was real. that was 1926. 50,000 klansmen march in washington, d.c. in may of 1927, a thousand klans men and some assorted fascists marched in queens in new york city and they ultimately rioted and fought with police. nobody was killed. there was a lot of news coverage of it at the time, which survives, both from the "the new york times," from the b...