A 1925 newspaper photograph of the color guard leading the contingent of State and national leadersof the Ku Klux Klan marching in the Labor Day parade in Harrisburg. The parade and other Klan events drew about 30,000 people to the city to participate in the activities sponsored by this hate group.
FLAGS ARE MASSED AT HEAD OF KLAN PARADE
This is the color guard that led the group of State Klan officials headed by Sam Rich in the van of the Klan’s gigantic demonstration in this city yesterday.
In the parade were marching units from Lykens, Williamstown and Pine Grove in addition to other unnamed communities from the Lykens Valley area that participated.
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From the Harrisburg Telegraph, September 8, 1925, via Newspapers.com.
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