Seven hundred masked Ku Klux Klansmen paraded at Tuskegee, Alabama, to protest the installation of Negro physicians at a Negro war veterans' hospital there.
The Negro hospital was recently established in connection with Tuskegee Institute, of which the late
Booker T. Washington was head. The Klansmen who made the demonstration apparently did nothing more than march in silence through the town and past the Institute. Immediately the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sent a telegram to President Harding asking that troops be sent to protect the lives of the colored...
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