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The Klan Comes to Our Town
Lingeman, Richard | May 9, 1994 issue

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When the author read that the Ku Klux Klan planned to hold a rally in his hometown, he felt an odd sense of shock, of personal affront, even though he did long ago left the town and grown away from it. As it happened, the author had planned to be in Crawfordsville on the weekend of the rally, which was scheduled for the Saturday before Easter. From loudspeakers at the far end of the block came the blare of country music. The redneck anthem was visually echoed by Confederate flags on the courthouse steps, not twenty feet from the Civil War monument.

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DEMONSTRATIONS; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; POLITICAL participation; COUNTRY music; CRAWFORDVILLE (Ind.); INDIANA; UNITED States
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