Ku Klux Klan Parade at Wallace, Sept. 25, 1924

Ku Klux Have Big Parade at Wallace, N.C. . . . Gather in Large Warehouse Later, Where Refreshments Were Served

Ku Klux Klan of Wallace, N.C., pulled off a monster parade in that city last Friday night.

The “Kamelias,” the woman’s branch of this organization, was well represented also. Hundreds of Klansmen formed the parade in an open field in the edge of the city and marched through the principal streets in robes carrying red torches. The parade was headed by six horsemen carrying a large fiery cross electrically lighted.

After the march through the streets, the paraders returned to the open field where a large fiery cross was burning, the cross extending about 25 feet in the air and lighting up the open spaces where an open-air naturalization was conducted. This cross could be seen for miles away.

About 75 men were naturalized and taken into the order.

After the ceremony, the Klansmen gathered at a large tobacco warehouse in the center of the city where refreshments were served and speeches delivered.

Thousands of people witnessed the parade and naturalization ceremony. They began pouring into Wallace from all sections of Duplin County late in the afternoon and by dark the streets of this prosperous little city were crowded with spectators.

From the front page of the Carolina Jeffersonian, Raleigh N.C., September 25, 1924. Some newspapers were Republican, some Democratic, some independent. The Carolina Jeffersonian aligned itself with the Ku Klux Klan.

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