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To: Non-Sequitur
I just came across the following in an article by John McWhirter in the current issue of CITY JOURNAL. It's about the Klan in Indianapolis.

"Virulent racism was a fact of life for the newcomers. Despite the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1869, black suffrage didn’t become a reality in Indiana until the 1880s; blacks couldn’t join the state militia until the late 1930s. In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan was Indiana’s largest and most powerful social organization, with 40 percent of the native-born white adult male population belonging to it. Indianapolis’s mayor was a Klansman, and the Klan controlled the legislature and the governor’s office—the Democratic party was essentially the Klan at the polls. In 1924, 6,500 Klansmen paraded through downtown Indianapolis to a cheering crowd of 75,000 onlookers after Klan election victories. For good reason, black Indianapolis became home to an anti-lynching league. One of the last recorded lynchings north of the Mason-Dixon line occurred in nearby Marion in 1930."

87 posted on 11/17/2002 7:33:28 PM PST by docmcb
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To: docmcb
One of the last recorded lynchings north of the Mason-Dixon line occurred in nearby Marion in 1930."

So when did the last recorded lynching south of the Mason-Dixon Line occur?

88 posted on 11/18/2002 3:34:36 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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