Klan Members Stage Parade

 The Marietta Register, October 20, 1924

[The following article contains information regarding discriminatory practices of the past.]

More than 800 Knights of the Ku Klux Klan garbed in the white robes of the order participated in the parade and open air meeting held in Marietta Saturday night.

The parade formed at Camp Tupper and headed by a local band marched down Third Street to Putnam, down Putnam to Second, down Second to Greene, turned right to Front and proceeded up Front Street to the Muskingum Park where the evening program was held.

Rev. F. E. Wilson, northern Ohio minister, in the main address of the evening, outlined the principles of the Klan organization while a fiery cross erected on the river bank at the foot of Lancaster Street blazed forth, casting its reddish hue over the large crowd that stood at the speaker's platform.