HOODED MEN END NEGRO GIRLS’ SCOUT CAMP
(10 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 13. One hundred men dressed in white robes and high-pointed hoods caused the breaking up of a Negro Girl Scouts camp at Bessemer, Alabama. They arrived at the camp at night in 20 motor-cars, entered a tent where two white women instructors were sleeping and told them it was not proper for white women to be within the boundaries of the camp with Negro girls and ordered them to get out of town within 24 hours. The Girl Scouts’ organisation immediately cancelled the camp. Mrs. Paul Rittenhouse, the national Girl Scout Director, said that this was done to safeguard the lives and property of the students and instructors.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22663, 14 June 1948, Page 5
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