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Here’s a part of history Democrats have been anxious to cover up. The KKK was deeply intertwined with the highest levels of the Democrat party. With the help of a willing media and public school system, this truth has been totally obscured. It’s time to shine a light on a shameful era in American history that continues to have a powerfully negative effect to this day.

The Ku Klux Klan was resurrected after the 1915 release of D.W. Griffith’s very popular motion picture The Birth of a Nation. After World War I, the popularity of the Klan surged and it became a political power throughout many regions of the United States, not just in the South.

Its political strength throughout the country gave it a major role in the 1924 Democratic Party National Convention .

The 20th Century Ku Klux Klan was notoriously anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic, in addition to being anti-black. The Klan advocates opposed those supporting Catholics from the major cities of the Northeast and Midwest.

The tension between pro- and anti-Klan delegates produced an intense and sometimes violent showdown between convention attendees from the states of Colorado and Missouri. Klan delegates opposed the nomination of New York Governor Al Smith because Smith was a Roman Catholic.

Smith campaigned against William Gibbs McAdoo, who had the support of most Klan delegates.

The second dispute of the convention revolved around an attempt by non-Klan delegates, led by Forney Johnston of Alabama, to condemn the organization for its violence in the Democratic Party’s platform.

Klan delegates defeated the platform plank in a series of floor debates.

The final vote on condemning the Klan was 542.85 in favor, 546.15 against.

To celebrate, tens of thousands of hooded Democrat Klansmen rallied in a field in New Jersey, across the river from New York City. This event, known subsequently as the “Klanbake”, was also attended by hundreds of Klan delegates to the convention, who burned crosses, urged violence and intimidation against African-Americans and Catholics, and attacked effigies of Smith.

The notoriety of the “Klanbake” convention and the violence it produced cast a lasting shadow over the Democratic Party’s prospects in the 1924 election and contributed to their defeat by incumbent Republican President Calvin Coolidge.

h/t ladylibertysnews.com