June 18, 2014
During the Ku Klux Klan’s revival in the 1960s, the United Klans of America, headed then by Robert Shelton of Tuscaloosa, Ala., competed with other Klan groups in Mississippi and around the South. Here the UKA rallies near Edinburg in Leake County.
Stories this photo appears in:
Civil Rights
Violent Summer: When Klansmen and Tyranny Stalked Mississippi: ‘I’ll Shoot You In Two”
There were no Klan robes in sight the night the violent Wolf Pack was born in southwest Mississippi.
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