![]() Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, N&O archives 3, 1979: A “Death to the Klan” march in Greensboro results in a shootout between members of the Communist Workers Party, the Ku Klux Klan and a neo-Nazi group, leaving five dead. The sign, which had stood for 10 years, welcomed motorists to Smithfield and invited them to join and support United Klans of America. Klansmen brandish shotguns and hurl rocks at photographers to discourage them from recording the event. 70 near Smithfield promoting the KKK is dismantled. In his absence, Joe Bryant becomes the acting Grand Dragon for North Carolina. He is fined $1,000 and sentenced to a year in federal prison. State Fair to distribute information.ġ969: Jones is convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over subpoenaed Klan financial records. October 1966: The Klan operates a booth at the N.C. More than 300 police officers from across the state are on hand to control the crowd of more than 5,000. 14, 1966: The United Klans of America holds a rally at Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh to support Jones and other Klan leaders facing federal prison sentences for contempt of Congress. Robed marchers make their way to Nash Square for speeches and then on to the State Capitol.Īug. About 1,500 gather at Memorial Auditorium earlier in the day. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech before a crowd of nearly 5,000 at N.C. July 31, 1966: A Klan rally is held in downtown Raleigh to protest the Rev. October 1965: Public hearings held by the House Un-American Activities Committee call North Carolina the most active state for the United Klans of America. 17, 1963: North Carolina Klansmen elect Jones as their state’s first Grand Dragon. Jones is granted a provisional charter into the UKA and appointed temporary Grand Dragon.Īug. Robert Shelton sends Robert Scoggin, the Grand Dragon of South Carolina, to meet with Jones and others in Salisbury. July 1963: Jones petitions the United Klans of America for a charter to organize in North Carolina. Their victory is featured in a Life magazine photo the following week. A group of Lumbee Indians surrounds the outnumbered Klan members and drives them off without any casualties. ![]() January 18, 1958: Ku Klux Klan stages a rally in the Robeson County town of Maxton to protest what members called race mixing in the county. The Tabor City Tribune and Whiteville News Reporter, two weekly newspapers in Columbus County, were awarded the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service for the coverage of the case and their role in helping to bring down the Klan’s strong presence in the area. Summer 1952: Crackdown on the Ku Klux Klan in Columbus County and Horry County, S.C. He would become “Grand Dragon” of the state organization. Jones would later brag that his mother proudly marched in a Klan parade when she was seven months pregnant with him. His father is a railroad worker, and both parents are active in the Ku Klux Klan. Griffith’s film “The Birth of a Nation” in 1915.ġ930: Bob Jones is born outside Salisbury. March 1871: Holden is removed from office.ġ905: North Carolinian Thomas Dixon publishes the novel “The Clansman,” which would be the basis for D.W. November 1870: White supremacists gain control of the General Assembly and impeach Holden for using the militia against the Klan. Nearly 100 Klan suspects are arrested but none are tried. William Woods Holden declares a state of insurrection in Alamance and Caswell counties. ![]() 26, 1870: Graham town commissioner Wyatt Outlaw, an African-American, is lynched by a band of Klansmen, leading to the Kirk-Holden War of 1870. The Invisible Empire is centered in Cleveland and Rutherford counties.įeb. The White Brotherhood, numbering 600-700, and the Constitutional Union Guard, numbering about 100, are centered in the Alamance County area. Functioning independently, the three have largely autonomous local leadership, though they often have overlapping memberships. ![]() 1868: Klan first appears in North Carolina.ġ868-71: Three Klan groups operate in North Carolina.
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