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The Nativist Klan

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Ku Klux Klan robe, Hollis, ca. 1925

Ku Klux Klan robe, Hollis, ca. 1925

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The Bangor chapter, which grew rapidly, built a meeting hall that would hold 2,000 members.

A chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was organized in Bangor in 1920, at about the same time as the local Klan chapter.