At its peak, the Klan had more than 10,000 members in North Carolina.
"Almost every night of the year in the mid-1960s you'd see a Klan rally somewhere in North Carolina," Cunningham says. "It was kind of a skewed county fair environment. They listened to live music, bought Klan souvenirs, and ended the night with an enormous cross-burning."NC's relative progressivism during the Civil Rights era fueled the more reactionary response.
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