KU KLUX KLAN COMPLEX
PRESIDENT TRUMAN CONCERNED APPEAL FOR RACIAL TOLERATION (Rec. I.4s'pan.) WASHINGTON, January 15. Addressing the Civil Rights Committee, which he established shortly after 20 armed whites lynched two negroes and their wives at Monroe (Georgia), last July, President'Truman asked for help in eliminating race discrimination,, and religious bigotry. Although he did not mention the Ku Klux Klan by name, he recalled that when he was campaigning for the county judgeship of , Missouri in 1922, “ there was an organisation-that met in the hills, burned crosses,and worked behind sheets. There is a tendency in this country, for that situation to develop again, unless we do something tangible to- prevent it. 1 have been very much alramed at certain happenings that show there is a latent spirit in some of us that is not what it ought to be.”
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Evening Star, Issue 26001, 16 January 1947, Page 7
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139KU KLUX KLAN COMPLEX Evening Star, Issue 26001, 16 January 1947, Page 7
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