GEORGIA: The Bareface Look

Because "certain irresponsible persons" were giving the Ku Klux Klan "bad publicity and censure" by wearing bedsheets and masks in the commission of their crimes, Grand Dragon Samuel Green, Atlanta obstetrician, last week issued an Imperial Edict: henceforth Klansmen must not wear masks "upon any street, road or highway in these United States."

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