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You are absolutely right. It is never mentioned anymore that the Ku Klux Klan had one of their largest rallies in history at the 1924 Democratic National Convention in New York. Klan members made up a huge segment of the delegates at that convention. NY Governor Al Smith led a minority faction of the delegates, who proposed a resolution distancing the party from the KKK. The Klan delegates united and defeated the resolution. Shortly afterwards some 20,000 Klansmen descended upon a field outside of New York City to celebrate their victory at the Democrat convention. They cursed effigies of Smith, spewed racist hate, and ended the thing with a giant cross burning. It got national news back then, appalling many ordinary citizens who then elected Republican Calvin Coolidge in a landslide. The history books and the media have ignored the Democrat's infamous "Klanbake Convention" of 1924 ever since.