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From: D Lohr <>
Subject: Ku Klux Klan in Wisconsin
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:03:21 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20050726151211.04441b10@pop3.netins.net>


Madison does have a history with the KKK dating to the early 1920's:

The KKK parades through Madison
" ... there were delegations of considerable size from Walworth and Rock counties, from Milwaukee, Racine, Winnebago county, and from Rockford and nearby towns ...."
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/articleView.asp?pg=1&id=15259

KKK parading down King St.
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=1902&qstring=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ewisconsinhistory%2Eorg%2Fwhi%2Fresults%2Easp%3Fkeyword1%3Dklan%26search%5Ftype%3Dbasic

Finally, one of the 3 students murdered in the infamous "Mississippi Burining" incident was a UW-Madison student. Many of his manuscripts and papers were later donated to the Wisconsin Historical Society by his mother.

Best Regards,
Dennis Lohr
Milwaukee, WI

Mari <> wrote:

Klu Klux Klan!? I didn't know they were in WI either! I grew up in
Madison, and never once heard that.

Mari
Dane CC

At 10:56 AM 7/26/2005,Heart's Desire Promotions wrote:

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> She even told me about attending a Ku Klux Klan meeting in
>Bruce, Rusk Co., WI. in the 1930's! I would NEVER have dreamed there
>would be such an organization in WI.!

>Rosemarie Novak

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