![]() ![]() Parsons, a professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, is the author of "Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction," a book published by UNC Press this year. News reports from the incident on July 19, 2015, estimated that 50 people affiliated with the group were there, yelling racial slurs at the crowd that had gathered to see the flag taken down.Įlaine Frantz Parsons, a historian who studies violence and culture, has looked at the resurgences of the Klan over the past 150 years. The group was behind a rally in South Carolina last year to protest the removal of the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds. "(W)ith just 150-200 members, they were able to draw attention to themselves in 15 different states (mostly in the south and east), typically through fliering, which requires only a single participant," the report said. In a 2015 report on the state of the Klan in the United States, the League wrote of the Pelham group's "fairly expansive geographical reach." The group in Pelham, a crossroads Caswell County community near the Virginia border, is known as "perhaps the most active Klan group in the United States today," according to the Anti-Defamation League. The number of members the groups have is unclear. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks the activities of hate groups around the country, has identified eight KKK groups and two white nationalist groups in North Carolina. ![]() But it's not clear they are from out of state. ![]()
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