jan 23, 1923 - KKK
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1923Jan 2 In Florida a white woman fearful of being caught in an affair has falsely claimed that she was raped and beaten by a black man. The local Ku Klux Klan takes action and attacks the residential town of 120 black people: Rosewood. At least eight people in Rosewood are killed. The town is burned to the ground and abandoned.
1925
Aug 8 As many as 40,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan parade in Washington DC. The Klan has an estimated 5 million, making it the largest fraternal organization in the United States. The Klan has claimed that the Bible, the United States flag and the Constitution are their keystone principles. They believe that to be one hundred percent American one must be white and Protestant.
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jan 23, 1923
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~ 102 years ago