Lament for the Dark Peoples 

  I was a red man one time, 

 But the white men came.  I was a black man, too,  

But the white man came.  They drove me out of the forest.  

They took me away from the jungles.  I lost my trees.  

I lost my silver moons. Now they've caged me  In the circus of civilization. 

 Now I herd with the many--.

Caged in the circus of civilizationLangston Hughes, 1924

Klan Meeting in Seattle, 1923

KKK in Parade in Bellingham, 1926

KKK Women march in Bellingham parade, 1926

KKK March in Washington DC, 1925

First Piggly Wiggly, Memphis, Tennessee…..1916