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The Klan era on this ground: the test, dug once

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AUDIT ROW #390 · DUG ONCE FOR LEGS 55 AND 68 · THE SETTLER NAMED FOR BOTH

Indiana's Klan era was the strongest in the nation, and its St. Joseph County presence is documented at the county's scale — but no Walkerton klavern, no dated Klan letter to a Walkerton officer, and no Klan-era threat incident on this ground stands in the records reached from this seat. The test is printed as a test, here, once, for both legs that ask it (the secret-societies leg's klavern item cross-references this article). In a state where the Klan's paper empire was headquartered ninety miles away and its county organizations reached small towns as a matter of course, this section asserts nothing about Walkerton's 1920s beyond what it read.

Principal sources: the indexed press and reference record for the Indiana Klan in St.

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Source: The Klan era on this ground: the test, dug once, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/black-history/klan-era-on-this-ground-the-test-dug-once/