Why would a Catholic join the Ku Klux Klan?

On June 16, 1928 ten thousand members of the Ku Klux Klan assembled in Jamesville, New York. The Syracuse Herald reported that “entire families with lunch baskets” had spent the afternoon enjoying choral music and, at 7.30 pm, the star of the show took to the stage. The Alabama Senator J. Thomas Heflin was an unabashed white supremacist and a man who, as Time magazine once put it...

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