The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-02-05
sopTn sTrRRnD OVER IxU KLUx,
Atlanta Paper Says Khan IntImIdateg
Negroes-Fear NOtOriety VIII Harm
Section.

Accounts OF the renewed activities
Of the Ku Klux Khan. which have
appeared recently in the newspapers
riGd investigation, reflected in many
| garization.
The Atlanta Constitution OF last
Sunday printed columns of the perse-
cution of Negroes in five or six coun-
ties Of tho state and told OF an in
vestigation ordered by the governor
under the direction OF the adjutatnt
At the offices OF the National AS
sociatiOn for the Advancement Of Col
ored People at 20 Fifth Avenue, this
\ city, clippings OF an advertisement APP
pearing in the papers of Knoxville
and other southern cities were shown
today
One of these, bearing a picture of
and headed with the Initials: TX. X
H." spread across two columns, reads
as follows:
DO you esteem the United states Of
America above any other government
civil: political, or ecclesiastical, in the
whole world?
Are you a native-born, white, Gem
tile, American citizen?
DO you believe in the tenets OF the
Christian religion7
great hearts. true faith, and ready
hands are needed!
Can YOU qualify?
If so, and you are seriously inter-
ested in the things mentioned above.
write p. o. Box 301, Amityville, Tenn.
giving full name, age, residence. and
business address. and the secret or
sders, II any Of which you are MEM
ber
The clipping quoted above the as
ISOLATION stated, was from the Jour-
nal and Tribune of Knoxville, and
walter f. White ,, assistant tan, secretary sec
plete qualifications of the Ku Klux
Klan for membership had been so
openly stated.
The Atlanta Constitution. in its des-
cription OF Ku Klux Khan operations,
dwelt on the intimidation of Negroes
in Gwinnett County, Ga, Five. aft
davits alleging persecution and out
of Governor Hugh M, Dorsey by Ne
groes OF the RoclSbridge district. One
Negro swore that masked men came
to his hor<1 at 2 A. M, hauled him
anything to say against the Ku Klux
Khan. Other Negroes declared they
were ordered to get out of the coun-
ty at once.
The Goveror ordered Sheriff Garner
to protect Negroes in Gwinnett Coun-
ty. The inter-racial trouble, II appears
has spread through Lumplzin. White,
Milton, Gwinnett and Meriweather
counties, and the charges made by Ne
gro residents include threats to get
out and go south of the Chattahoo-
chic. within ten days, or have your
house blown up" The Constitution re-
porter. who investigated the troubles.
stated that he found houses and
churches burned and that he was in
formed that many Negroes who had
been land owners had been forced to
sell or abandon their farms and homes
altogether following threats from the
Ku KluX.
.STo Drive Negroes TO Work."
The Association for the Advance
ment OF Colored People officials stat
ed that the movement seemed pri-
mariIy an economic one, for most of
the efforts appeared to be directed
toward driving the Negroes into the
fields to work. The association re-
ceived an editorial clipping from the
Beaufort, N. c., News of Jan. 6, head
ed THE Ku ISlux Khan" and reading:
1--WE trust this new organization with
an old name will make no Roadway
in North Carolina 1t seems to be a
Georgia product, and It should stay
there until IT goes out of business.
We do not need any invisible en-
pires to govern this land"
Another clipping was shown from
the Greenwood S. c., Index, stating;
This Ku Klux Khan business Is get
ting a world Of free advertising, es-
pecially outside of the south. And 1t
is of a kind that does no good. We
have no patience with the scheme.