Some members of "the Hooded Order" down Alabama way got some unexpected news in 1927 when they discovered that their standard maneuvering tactics, so often relied upon to skirt the law, had failed them utterly. Three separate set-backs in as many months had resulted in the criminal convictions of thirty-six members of the Ku Klux Klan; so surprising was this event to the local residents, the Alabama press corps and those ink-stained wretches way up North at the THE LITERARY DIGEST, that soon the nation found everyone was discussing it.
The attached article is essentially a collection of assorted opinions gathered from across the United States concerning this stunning defeat for the Alabama Klan.
Click here to learn about the origins of the term "Jim Crow".
Click here for the Ku Klux Klan Archive.
