Uniquely Medfield
Cross Burning in Medfield and The KKK
In the history of the Ku Klux Klan, here's a look at the second Klan that came to life in the 1920's, which is less recorded in history.
When one hears of the Ku Klux Klan, most envision the terror organization that hid behind white sheets and hoods and attacked, lynched and threatened African-Americans in the South at the time of Reconstruction following the Civil War. But what is less recorded in history is the second Klan which came to life in the 1920’s. As increasing numbers of immigrants came into the United States in the late nineteen teens and 1920s, they brought their own ethnic and religious traditions to the nation's cities and towns. Prejudice against the immigrants, many of whom were Catholic, began to increase. The Klan came back into existence spewing their hatred against not only the African-Americans but against newly arrived immigrants, Catholics and Jews…
