The tiny town that fought the Klan
Residents used water on KKK, which responded with fatal shots Sunday, April 11, 2004 Lillian Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Eighty years ago, more than 400 Ku Klux Klansmen rode evening trains into the tiny Cambria County town of Lilly, made their white-robed march through town — darkened after its electric lines were cut — and burned […]
The tiny town that fought the Klan
Residents used water on KKK, which responded with fatal shots Sunday, April 11, 2004 Lillian Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Eighty years ago, more than 400 Ku Klux Klansmen rode evening trains into the tiny Cambria County town of Lilly, made their white-robed march through town — darkened after its electric lines were cut — and burned […]
The night the KKK robbed Lilly, Pa. of its collective innocence
The Railroad Station, Lilly, Pa. where the KKK disembarked April 5, 1924: The night that Lilly lost its innocence Hugh Conrad Nestled in a valley in the Allegheny Mountains of west-central Pennsylvania, the community of Lilly was similar to many other small coal towns along the Pennsylvania Railroad. Many immigrants journeyed there from Europe seeking […]
A Hundred Years of Terror
A special report prepared by the Southern Poverty Law Center The Ku Klux Klan’s long history of violence grew out of the resentment and hatred many white Southerners felt in the aftermath of the Civil War. Blacks, having won the struggle for freedom from slavery, were now faced with a new struggle against widespread racism and the terrorism of […]