1-16: 8th August 1925
17-23: 13th September 1926
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All images from the Library of Congress
Ku Klux Klan’s Washington Parades, 1925-26
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Some of those outfits look like Yogurt, the Yoda character from Mel Brooks movie Spaceballs. Anyone?
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Nowadays they hide in the dark like the vermin they are.
It’s always strange to see these kinds of photos. I guess a modern German might feel the same about seeing pictures of Nazis.
Correction: Nowadays they hide in plain sight like the average people they are.
Racists are still with us, and still in DC. They just don’t express themselves the same way. It’s more difficult to identify them when mainstream political parties borrow their talking points with minor adaptations.
german nazs was mentioned looking at those photos then then at photos from 10 years also later germany how close did the usa
get to going down the same path
Scary numbers in these photos.
@ Red Bunny: Spot on! Great catch. I love that movie.
@ David A.: Also spot on.
Obviously these marches were conducted with wide support and were very public and out in the open. It is fitting that the White House is featured prominently in some of those photos. President Wilson (the first “progressive” president?) was himself a member of the klan. And the Nazi party did have a fairly large and open following here in the States right before the second world war. As did the communist party in the early ’30′s. These movements where very public and open, which leads me to believe that “vast conspiracies” of any ideology are not what you have to look out for. It’s the movements that are right smack in front of you that you have to watch out for.
Thanks to the O Brother What Art Thou, I can’t see these photos without hearing the Wicked Witch of the West’s guards sing “OH ee Oh, OOh- oh! “OH ee Oh, e- OOh- oh!” I cannot no longer take them that seriously (at least in this context) -albeit that was probably the Coen’s intentions.
Apples and oranges are different but they’re both fruits….It’s not like we’re comparing grapefuits and golf balls here.
All should remember that the Klan existed in three different eras-as three very different organizations. Any meaningful comparison with mainstream or near mainstram political
organizations can only be made with the second Klan Which was a social, political,and electoral movement and not primarily a terrorist organization like the first and third versions of the Klan.
btw, in the scale of the universe even golfballs and grapefruits are similar because they’re both round, have a similar surface pattern and are within the same order of magnitude
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