Ku Klux Klan Resurgence in SC | History of SC Slide Collection

Conservative opposition to the gains of the civil rights and student anti-war protests led to a brief resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina in the 1960s and 1970s. This KKK meeting was held in Darlington on July 14, 1970.

Courtesy of the Darlington County Historical Commission.

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