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GEORGETOWN — Hard times, racial unrest and nostalgia provided the foothold the Ku Klux Klan would use to grow its membership to more than 150,000 in Texas in the early 1920s, setting the stage for one of the more dramatic trials in Williamson County history.
In the 1920s the KKK’s stated goals were protecting God, country, home, womanhood, the South and white supremacy. Klan members saw themselves as defenders of morality and society.Read here:
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