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~t States of America
1982
Or~ that cold day， large slips of paper printed in red
were mysteriously scattered through the streets of Pal-
myra， Tennessee. Stray winds whipped them along the
lanes and fields and they stuck to fences and trees and the
front of buildings.
KU KLUX WILL PARADE TONIGHT!H
Word spread to the countryside and a large， curious
crowd gathered in the rasping darkness and smell of oil
lamps along the street. People looked excited， a child here
and there perched on a father s shoulder， all eager to see
the show. They talked of the nightriders whose numbers
were growing throughout the South. Few people in that
part of the state had seen them and most wondered what
they looked like.
\"I heard they dress like devils，\" a man said. \"They got
horns and their horses are painted red.\"
\"Why they get up like that for?\" another said.
\"Scare niggers， I hear.\"
\"You don t have to tell a nigger nothing but a little hell
to scare him.\"
\"Not these times， old man.\" The speaker looked around
to see ff there were any negro militia in town， or Yankee
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