Ku Klux Klan hood, Hollis, ca. 1925
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Maine Historical Society
An unidentified person used this hood along with an accompanying robe in Hollis in the 1920s, when the Ku Klux Klan was at its height of over 150,000 members, or 23 percent of the population in Maine. In addition to being racist, they were anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic. Marches occurred throughout the state.
Deputy Carl Churchill found this hood and robe 20 feet up on a power pole in Hollis in 1965.
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