Greensboro, April 16—Threatening to “test with bullets” whether members of the White Ku Klux Klan are real ghosts, a letter signed “Colored K.K.K. received here this afternoon by E.C. Lyndon, informs him that “32,000 negroes have organized a K..K.” It was mailed at Salisbury.
The letter fairly drips venom. The “test” will be made at the next parade, Mr. Lyndon was warned, and at that time the “personnel” of at least a few of the white Ku Klux Klan will become known, it added. The 32,000 negroes are banded together because “the courts do not function,” according to the person who wrote the letter. In addition, Mr. Lyndon is warned to be careful not to take chances, and be advised to watch his step. The letter follows:
“You struck the nail on the head when you said the K.K.K. was needed because the courts do not function. It is for this purpose that 32,000 negroes have organized a K.K.K. We are going to test with bullets whether these ghostly looking objects are real ghosts. The tests will be made at the next parade at which time the personnel of at least a few will become known.
Colored K.K.K.”
From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, April 19, 1921. There was, of course, no Colored K.K.K. in North Carolina in 1921.
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