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Ku Klux Klan meeting, Georgia

Ku Klux Klan meeting, Georgia



Area: Atlanta

Stone Mountain, in northern Georgia, is many things: a beautiful geological formation, the largest memorial to the Confederacy in the United States, a park and tourist attraction, and the site where the second iteration of the Ku Klux Klan held their inaugural meeting in 1915. Klan membership grew throughout the 1920s, declining in the latter half of the decade after the leader of the Indiana KKK, D.C. Stephenson, was convicted of the horrific murder of a local White woman, Madge Oberholtzer. Martin Luther King Jr. invoked Stone Mountain as a symbol of these White supremacist movements in his famous speech “I Have a Dream,” which features the line “Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.” There is an ongoing debate in Georgia as to whether the park should remove the memorial, which many see as glorifying racism and hate.

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