Klansmen March in Forsyth County, Ga.
A march of more than 100 Ku Klux Klan members and their supporters went off without incident Saturday in this Forsyth County town, which was the site of a major civil rights demonstration earlier this year.
The marchers, more than half of whom wore the white robes of the segregationist organization, paraded 1 1/2 miles to the town square, where they were met by about 35 spectators and a number of law enforcement officers.
The procession was billed as part of a statewide get-together of the Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Organizers said they were demonstrating “to keep Forsyth County white.”
In January, counterdemonstrators threw rocks, bottles and trash at civil rights advocates who staged a march in the virtually all-white county north of Atlanta.
The attack inspired a second rights march a week later that attracted more than 20,000 civil rights demonstrators.
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