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- Description is exactly "This is a collection of articles related to the Second Ku Klux Klan that was popular in the 1920s. According to Florence historian Lee Freeman: "Despite Ed. Camper's editorials Florence had a Klan chapter by 1923 which seems not to have done very much other than, for example, holding a couple of rallies at McFarland and on one occasion attempting to intimidate a local house of prostitution into closing; so far we haven't discovered any evidence that it ever harassed local African-Americans, Jews or Catholics (if it did it apparently went unreported in the local papers). Perhaps this lack of more serious activity is at least partly because of the Times' editorials against the Klan? Earlier Klan activity in Florence was reported in national newspapers in the late 1860s which seem to indicate that Klansmen (in one instance some 500 who when asked to unmask did so but were not recognized by locals) on these occasions came from out of town. So just exactly where these Klansmen came from isn't known. Perhaps there was an early chapter in the county, or maybe these men came from a nearby town? We need to do more research.""
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