From: Sherri Hall [ldrbelties@earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 3:41 PM
To: KY-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: [KYF] NEWS: Klan Meeting In Louisville Forbidden - 1921

Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson
  <http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00005.html#0001143>

Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Sept. 16, 1921

Ku Klux Cannot Meet
Klan Meeting In Louisville Forbidden As Against Public Safety

   Louisville KY., - Sept. 16 -- The Board of Public Safety will not allow
the Ku Klux Klan to hold meetings in Louisville, it was announced yesterday.
   The board issued this statement in answer to a full page advertisement in
a local morning paper to the effect that a meeting of the Ku Klux Klan would
be held here Saturday.
   On reading the advertisement, Mayor Smith called in Police Chief Petty,
members of the Board of Safety and city Attorney Joseph S. Lawton.  the
meeting decided on the policy of forbidding the Ku Klux meeting on the
ground that it would be a menace to public order through the spread of
prejudices and racial hatred.
ed.

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