might have a parade, but if they did have a parade it would end up in total violence. El Paso failed to confront the Ku Klux Klan and the nature of the troubling problems that the community faced. By late September there, were more than 300 members of the KKK and the number was still growing. Deprived of an opening for its views in local press, Frontier Klan No. 100 made a donation of fifty dollars to the local Associated Charities fund drive to demonstrate its respectability in other ways. But they sent the money back to man. After this, the Klan accused the Associated Charities of taking money from gamblers and other dangerous people. An unsigned letter was sent to the Associated Charities director warning him that they would boycott their annual charity ball in late November . But they never did
             I know that the KKK is bad and hardly no good comes from those idiots but imagine that they came to El Paso and nobody gave them any guff, and just ignored them and, let them do their own thing. Then I bet that there wouldn't have been any threats to any body made and the KKK would of recruited their members and moved on.
             Do you remember when that guy in Arkansas tied a black guy to the back of his truck and drug him down a gravel road and his body parts were spread out for two or three miles? Well I do and I'll probably never forget it because that really made me sick to my stomach. I just don't under stand what would make some body hate another person so much that they could do such a horrible crime but I guess stuff like that happens every day. It just shows ya how bad the world really is.
             This is a two-page report by Cody Tozier (Posey)
             The Klu Klux Klan recruits in El Paso
             In the summer of 1921, the KKK showed up in El Paso. Considering the local conditions at the time, it was questionable whether the KKK would have any degree of success in El Paso. El Paso's racial tensions and the problems posed by the cit...