Arkansas State press., 1949-09-09
The Deep South Speaks
BY Robert DUR for ems
THE INVISIBLE EMF

THE INVISIBLE EMPlRE-500 Of Alabama white men
light in stature have banded themselves together into Cit
for the dissolution the Ku Kux Khan in Ala
bama particularly jefferson county and the adjacent
where the Ku kuX Khan accused Of fragrant violation of the
privacy and civil rights of Of fok-mostly white in
Guiding women and children.
There powers vieng for supremacy in Alabama
the Dxiecrats and the XXX and their fellow travellers
When the BNeerats succeeded in keeping Trumans name
off the ballot in Alabama last lot OF reaconary
such the XXX got the idea that you could do almost any
thing In Alabama and get away with H.
This inspired the less dormant XXX it
from the dead and become the Invisible EmpreSrong
enough consucey DEFY the itself And attempt
recently made when the head Of the Khan Alabama
refused to hand the Grand Jury investigating oggngs aedged
to have been committed inspired by the XXX list of the
membership of the hooded order the that presumably
might TO 1t that XXX member got the grand trial
jury.
The head of the Khan said he would rot in Jail before he
would produce the records Later he said the had
stolen from his home and that impossible for him pro-
duce them In court lie given few days bond
purge himself of contempt growing Of his refusal pro.
duce the records prior to his incarceration but he back
pleading that is impossible for him produce the
oris and finds himself again behind the bars.
The people outside the Khan realize that It's
way TO The point where would be telling employers who
they could employ controlling elections saying what type
Jobs various people might hold and forcing whuneycr they
liked to work wherever and for what the xxx dccrced In other
words the kan dreamed of dupe invisible with white
supremacy political and economic slavery for Negroes
whites as the chief corner stone in their subveSve
Last week the kan leader effort divert attention
from his refusal to produce the xxx membership roll claimed
he thought had been stolen by the Number Communist In
hc state whom he said is known hold midnight conferences
with Attorney A. D. Shores prominent Negro who is employed
by Negro Property Owners association In Birmingham which
opposing any agreement outside the discussion Federal
Court Tor the Northern district OF Alabama holding mt.
nicpal coming laws based race are unconstitutional and
WON he terms The greatest enemy Of the the and
the state
In the area where whites trying keep Negroes out
four Negro homes have been bombed however Negroes keep
moving in and building homes In spite of the that the city
is trying to keep alive the unconstitutional city racial zonnr
law and Negro property owners refused accept any beyond
or outside the Federal Court ruling which sort
ct "Gentlemens Agreement, where Negroes may live
and which affect would nuy the Federal Court order holding
racial coming laws Illegal
In this connection the Kan is suspected Of gaining with
Night Shirt and bombs what not gain in court Of laws
but now apparent to all that group which uses bomb TO
win IN one Instance would extend that into other areas and
If not checked would erect national Invisible Empire and in
the process overthrow the Of United States
The south fertile soil in which the seeds of this sort