class white American Protestants, this mixture of
             divergent cultures was viewed with suspicion. After all, most of the
             working class people who initially formed the mass base of the KKK were not
             welcoming of change. This, of course, included the controversial prospect
             of racial mixing and the host of problems such mixing entails.
             Often, this resistance to change could have violent results. In
             Philadelphia, Mississippi, for example, activists from the Northeast
             attempted to help black people register to vote. In the anger that
             followed, three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964. Despite their
             deaths and the unfavorable publicity that followed, admirers of
             Philadelphia still state with pride that "there is comfort in knowing that
             tomorrow will be little changed from today" (Mars 1).
             Many of the recruitment for the early Klan were done on a parish-
             level. In Louisiana, for example, in the turn of the 20th century, early
             Klan councils consolidated power among the neighboring parishes. The
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