The Nation - News from Feb. 1, 1987

Ku Klux Klansmen bought groceries and other items in Cumming, Ga., in support of merchants who closed during a massive civil rights march last weekend. A klan official said that he drove 65 miles to shop in Cumming, seat of all-white Forsyth County, and that the protest resulted in 200 membership applications. About 20,000 people last weekend protested a klan attack on a smaller demonstration Jan. 17 in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. Managers and clerks were reluctant to discuss the klan visits. One called the last two weeks “pretty much one big, long headache.”