The Day The Ku Klux Klan Came To My Town

<p>One morning seven years ago, an ugly sight greeted residents of my small Alabama town, which journalists often call one of the prettiest in the South.</p> <p>During the night, the Ku Klux Klan had tossed hundreds &mdash; perhaps thousands &mdash; of anti-transgender flyers into our driveways and onto our well-tended lawns.</p> <p>Similar handbills turned up in towns all along our part of the Gulf Coast, and a leader of the Loyal White Knights chapter of the KKK in North Carolina&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kkk-fliers-target-transgenders_n_574447ede4b045cc9a71d9b0" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">said</a>&nbsp;they came from his members in Alabama and Mississippi.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/the-polis/the-day-the-ku-klux-klan-came-to-my-town-92886bec583f"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>
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