Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 11:22:33 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Who Was That Masked Man? , was Confederate flags
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

The anti-mask law dates from 1845.
See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1793000/1793540.stm, =
http://shadow.autono.net/sin001/kkk.htm , http://www.cnn.com/US/9910/23/kla=
n.03/#1
for various reference to the law.

mjw

>>> dalek_cag at yahoo.com 04/08/02 11:17AM >>>
Also, a number of states passed laws, pretty much only
honored in the breach, that were designed to impede
Klan activity.  for instance, to the best of my
knowledge, NY still has a law on the books forbidding
the wearing of masks in public.  It was intended to
prevent Klan rallys.  (of course the side effect is
that a large segment of the population violates the
law every Oct.)  In fact, I believe this was one of
the reasons why the Klan rally in NYc in the 1990s had
such a small turnout.  The courts in NY refused to
overturn the mask law, and there just ween't that many
Klansman that were willing to show up sans pillowcase.

--cathy green

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