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1.13.56 |
Object Name |
Newspaper Article |
Description |
Letter to the editor of the Mobile Register newspaper dated 7/14/1927 (newspaper clipping) from William Call titled "Fairhope K.K.K. Parade." Call is responding to "adverse criticism of Fairhope regarding the Ku Klux Klan parade and exercises" on July 4, 1927. The Klan was given permission to parade by the mayor of Fairhope. After learning of this, the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Executive Council passed a motion to disallow use of the bayfront parks of the FSTC by "any organization whose qualifications for membership" exclude anyone who qualifies for citizenship "under the Constitution and Statutes of the United States." The Town of Fairhope's Council passed a similar resolution. However the permit to parade was not withdrawn by the mayor and, although the parade was held, it took place on private property, not property owned by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. From the correspondence of Anne B. Call |
Date |
1927/07/14 |
People |
Call, William R. F. (1872-1947) |
Search Terms |
Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, criticisms of Ku Klux Klan Town of Fairhope Mobile Press Register newspaper Mobile Register, The; newspaper |