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Item 66676
Title: Ku Klux Klan march, Island Falls, 1924
Contributed by: Cary Library
Date: 1924-07-12
Location: Island Falls; Houlton
Media: Photograph
Item 66677
Title: Ku Klux Klan march, Island Falls, 1924
Contributed by: Cary Library
Date: 1924-07-12
Location: Island Falls; Houlton
Media: photograph
Item 1265
Title: Ku Klux Klan procession, Portland, ca. 1923
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1923
Location: Portland
Media: Black and white photograph
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In Maine, like many other states, a newly formed Ku Klux Klan organization began recruiting members in the years just before the United States entered World War I. A message of patriotism and cautions about immigrants and non-Protestants drew many thousands of members into the secret organization in the early 1920s. By the end of the decade, the group was largely gone from Maine.