and a neighboring town literally over night in the early twenties. People were burnt out, lynched and shot in the doing of it. Its not in the town historys. And people do not talk about it.
I knew about Tulsa and the town in Florida and thought it was"isolated". It wasn't. When its talked about, its called a race riot. It wasn't. It was about whites trying to destroy the successful black middle class. At the same time time the KKK held a"million man"march in Washington DC and Klan candidates were elected mayors of some northern cities, including Akron,Ohio - where John Brown had his home for many years.
This is interesting and was never taught in any American History class I ever took in high school and college. The "Black Experiance" did not end at slavery:
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Their message struck a cord, and membership in the Klan ballooned in the 1920s. By the middle of the decade, estimates for national membership in this secret organization ranged from three million to as high as eight million Klansmen. And membership was not limited to the poor and uneducated on society's fringes. Mainstream, middle-class Americans donned the white robes of the Klan too. Doctors, lawyers and ministers became loyal supporters of the KKK. In Ohio alone their ranks surged to 300,000. Even northeastern states were not immune. In Pennsylvania, membership reached 200,000. The Klan remained a clandestine society, but it was by no means isolated or marginalized.
In the 1920s, the Klan moved in many states to dominate local and state politics. The Klan devised a strategy called the "decade," in which every member of the Klan was responsible for recruiting ten people to vote for Klan candidates in elections. In 1924 the Klan succeeded in engineering the elections of officials from coast to coast, including the mayors of Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon. In some states, such as Colorado and Indiana, they placed enough Klansmen in positions of power to effectively control the state government. Known as the "Invisible Empire," the KKK's presence was felt across the country.
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In March of 1925, over 60 thousand Ku Klux Klan members marched in Washington DC to the White House and US Capitol to display their ever-increasing numbers across America.