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Book 9: Choose Your Side or the Thinking of the Klu Klux Klan by James R. Venable
Book — Box: 3, Book: 9
Collection number: 9
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
2021
MS134-0012 Tampa: Tar and Terror, 1936?
Book — Box: 1, Book: 12
Collection number: MS/134-012
Scope and Contents
Relates the story of the November 30, 1935 kidnapping, torture and murder of Joseph Shoemaker, and kidnapping and torture of other members of the Modern Democrats political organization, who were assisting cigar factory workers in Tampa, Fla. Mr. Shoemaker died 9 days later in a Tampa hospital. The police and others involved in the kidnappings were reported to be members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Dates:
1936?
The Valdosta Daily Times, Sept. 8, 1948
Item — Box: 6, Item: 9
Collection number: Item 9
Scope and Contents
Front page headline reads: "Klan Burns Cross Here Last Night." Article with photo describes a Klan rally in Valdosta.
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Created: Sept. 8, 1948