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 — perhaps thousands — 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 <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kkk-fliers-target-transgenders_n_574447ede4b045cc9a71d9b0" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">said</a> they came from his members in Alabama and Mississippi.</p>
<p>Anti-LGBTQ activism by the Klan was as new to our area as it was odd. The hate group has operated in Alabama since Reconstruction, but its terrorism has focused on black — not gay and lesbian or transgender — residents.</p>
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