In this article, there was a debate between William Robinson Pattangall (against KKK) and Hiram Wesley Evans (for the KKK). Pattangall was saying that the KKK is un-American and that everyone should be equal. Pattangall said “Equally un- American is it practice of attempting secret and threating influence on the government. No one has shown how great this evil is more clearly than the Klan speakers.” Pattangall was saying that we should have equal right no matter what our race and religious we …show more content…
There was a mass meeting over five thousand citizens held in the auditorium. The league was made to scare the KKK to stop what they were doing. The people believed that the KKK is bad and that they cannot function without violating the rights that was made for us. The league also believed that it was un-American because they cannot exist and function without messing with the political and religious freedom. In the mind of the KKK, they didn’t give other people who was white a fair trial. The KKK believed that it was their right to punish the other people so they burned, lynch, shoot, etc the people who was African American, Mexicans, Jews, etc. There a lot of KKK members everywhere, they had regular jobs like teachers, steel workers, but mainly in the law enforcement because they can get away with no problem. In the state of Texas, some of the KKK members who was part of the law enforcement disregarded the oath they took and only remember their obligation the “Imperial Wizard” and his “Invisible Empire”. The Imperial Wizard was like the head KKK member in