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From: Mari <>
Subject: Re: [WIDANE] Ku Klux Klan in Wisconsin
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:03:13 -0500
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1924! My mother was four years old then! Living in Crawford County, WI!

Mari

At 04:03 PM 7/26/2005,D Lohr wrote:
>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

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