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Identifier
10019697
Description
A march of Ku Klux Klan members, led by Nation Knights of the Ku Klux Klan members Addie Barlow Frazier and Grand Dragon Earl Hawkins, seen at center, in downtown Dallas, Texas on November 3, 1979. A member at left holds a confederate flag while a member on the right holds an American flag. A NBC 5 cameraman is seen at right. A sign held by Hawkins reads "Join the March of the Christian Soldiers" and a sign in the background reads "If God Had Meant for Negroes to be Equal He Wouldn't Have Made Them Black." About 50 Klansmen began the march at Commerce and Harwood streets but ended abruptly when Dallas police herded the Klan into the basement of the Dallas County Courthouse when it appeared violence might occur between the protesters and the Klan. After the Klan march, an estimated 2,500 anti-Klan protesters, calling themselves the Coalition for Human Dignity, marched through the downtown area. Dallas activist groups, such as the Mexican-American Brown Berets and the East Dallas Bois D'Arc Patriots, were in force in the march, which also attracted Catholic theology students, feminists, representatives of the gay community, and many others.
Archival Date
1979-11-03
Collection Name
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Collection Number
AR406-6 11/04/1979 #7284 [Env. 1, Frame 28A]
Original Format
Negatives, Black & White
File Format
JPG
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Subjects
Confederate flags; Flags--United States; Soldiers; Military uniforms; Race relations
Names
Ku Klux Klan; Frazier, Addie Barlow; Hawkins, Earl
Subjects
Confederate flags; Flags--United States; Soldiers; Military uniforms; Race relations