BEST 4 1925 NY TIMES newspapers LARGEST KU KLUX KLAN RALLY in Washington DC KKK

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Lot of four (4) 1925 New York Times newspapers with front-page headline articles on the largest KKK ( Ku Klux Klan ) march in United States history, in WASHINGTON, DC
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SEE PHOTO----- FOUR (4) COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPERS, the New York Times
(NY), dated August 6, 7, 8 & 9, 1925 with the buildup up to and coverage of the largest
KKK
rally in U.S. history, when the Klan and its supporters marched on Washington, DC. ALSO in these issues is great Major League baseball coverage, including large action photos of BABE RUTH, TY COBB and Tris Speaker
“Oh, say not so!” gasped a Maryland newspaper the other day when everybody was “quivering in excited anticipation of 100,000 ghostly apparitions wafting through the streets of the national capital to the stirring strains of the ‘Liberty Stable Blues,’ “ and word came from Washington that the mammoth parade of the the Ku Klux Klan had been called off. This Maryland paper, the Baltimore Evening Sun, cried “Darn! There goes a-glimmering the thrill of a lifetime.” But the mammoth parade had not been called off, and news that it had not was provocative of press comment the country over. For example, “Go to it, Klan!” said one editor; “let the nighties gleam!” The Baltimore Sun, in an editorial headed “Have a Heart!” said: “Washington languishes, a fit place for hookworms and sleeping sickness. Into that depressing solemnity comes the Ku Klux Klan to kick up a few didoes. Deprive it of its fiery cross? Gosh, no!” The Syracuse Herald said: “Ku-Kluxism is least harmful and menacing when the sun shines on it. Only in the dark can it make trouble. For that reason, we say, let them parade.” When Thomas L. Avaunt, former Klan official who is now the head of the Protestant Knights of America, protested to President Coolidge against the proposed demonstrations, the Memphis Commercial Appeal protested, “Avaunt, Mr. Avaunt, and the the Ku Klux parade!” This was the common attitude, except at the Capitol, where a certain apprehensiveness prevailed, and the Washington News took pains to declare, “There isn’t going to be the slightest disorder,” while the Washington Evening Star said “There is no occasion for alarm,”….
- From a contemporary Literary Digest article on the March.
Good condition, with mild edge wear and tanned pages.
This listing includes the complete entire original newspapers.
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