Gonzalo Pacanins

Gonzalo Pacanins is a student at the University of Maryland, and a local to the Greater Washington region. He is currently pursuing a B.A. in Political & Economic History. His interests lie in the smaller stories that make up the history of the DC area.

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When the Klan Descended on Washington

12/11/2019 in DC, Virginia by Gonzalo Pacanins
Klan members outside the U.S. Capitol in August 1925. (Source: Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress)

“Phantom-like hosts of the Ku Klux Klan spread their white robe over the most historic thoroughfare yesterday in one of the greatest demonstrations the city has ever seen.” So read The Washington Post on the morning of August 9th , 1925. On the previous afternoon, the nation’s capital bore witness to the largest Klan march in the city’s history as tens of thousands of robed Klansmen marched down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the Washington monument, most of them feeling no need to wear a mask.