Man Pleaded Guilty to Burning Cross to Scare Black Neighbors
Axel Cox, 24, of Mississippi, pleaded guilty after facing charges for trying to intimidate his neighbors, according to the DOJ.
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Axel Cox, 24, of Mississippi, pleaded guilty after facing charges for trying to intimidate his neighbors, according to the DOJ.
Allen Stevens, now chairman of the LaPorte County Republican Party and member of the South Central School Board, said he soon turned himself in to police.
Barely one year after the reconstituted KKK expanded operations into Oregon, the Klan claimed 14,000 members here, 9,000 of them in Portland.
In the 1922 elections, Klan members and sympathizers gained control of the Multnomah County Commission and Oregon House of Representatives. They helped defeat an incumbent governor and replace him with a Klan sympathizer and provided the muscle to pass a state ballot initiative aimed at banning Catholic schools.
The 23-year-old suspect burned the cross in front of his Black neighbors because of their race, according to the U.S. Justice Department.