May 20, 1921.--One thousand men marched through the streets of
Dallas, Texas, at night, mounted and unmounted, all of them attired
in the Ku Klux regalia. They carried a fiery cross, and several
banners bearing these words: "The Invisible Empire," "White
Supremacy," "Pure Womanhood," "Dallas Must Be Clean," "Our Little
Girls Must Be Protected," "All Native Born," "The Guilty Must Pay."
They rode and marched through the streets silently and without
interference from the authorities. Announcements of the purposes and
objects of the Klan had previously been accepted and printed by the
Dallas papers.
May 21, 1921.--At Sour Lake, Texas, Joe J. Devere, a justice of the
peace, was tarred and feathered.
May 23, 1921.--Ku Klux Klan paid $10 fine in police court at Dallas,
Texas, for tacking signs on telegraph poles.
May 23, 1921.--At Dallas, Texas, John Moore, white, was seized in his
home by masked men, taken to the out-skirts of the city, stripped of
his clothing and lashed with a horsewhip. He was accused of attacking
a twelve-year-old girl. He fled town.
May 23, 1921.--At Houston, Texas, Ira McKeown, taxi driver, was
beaten.
May 24, 1921.--At Dallas, Texas, John Parks was flogged by masked
men.
May 25, 1921.--Jack Morgan, of Shreveport, was tarred and feathered
by masked men.
June 8, 1921.--Dr. R. H. Lenert, at Brenham, Texas, was whipped,
tarred, and feathered by eight masked men. He was charged with
"disloyalty during the war" and with "speaking German."
June 8, 1921.--At Waco, Texas, K. Cummings was taken from his home by
masked men, but escaped from his abductors.
June 8, 1921.--At Sea Breeze, Fla., Thomas L. Reynolds, a New Yorker,
was assaulted while in his hotel by masked men, and beaten and shot.
June 13, 1921.--At Dallas, Texas, Edward Engers, filling station
proprietor, was flogged by masked men and ordered out of town.
June 14, 1921.--At Houston, Texas, J. W. Boyd, a lawyer, was taken
from his office by masked men and whipped. He was charged with
annoying young girls.
June 17, 1921.--At Belton, Texas, James Collins, a negro, was given
sixty lashes by masked men, and a placard, "Whipped by Ku Klux Klan,"
placed on his back, following his release from jail after a Grand
Jury had failed to indict him on the charge of making insulting
approaches to white women.
June 18, 1921.--At Goose Creek, Texas, E. L. Bloodworth and Olan
Jones, oil field workers, were whipped, tarred and feathered by
masked men, who charged their victims with being "undesirable
citizens."
June 20, 1921.--At Goose Creek, Texas, W. Stewart, a jitney driver,
was whipped, tarred, and feathered by twelve men after three
passengers had lured him to a lonely spot. He was then ordered to
leave town.
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