Speaker on stage at a Ku Klux Klan rally at the Moose Lodge in Bessemer, Alabama.
The rally was held in response to riots at Ole Miss before the enrollment of James Meredith, the first African American student at the school. This image was published in the Birmingham News on October 17, 1962, with the following caption: "Masks hide faces at Klan meeting in Bessemer / This pi...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/195648 |