The article reflects on the 1925 march of the Ku Klux Klan in Washington D.C., showcasing the event's scale with at least 30,000 participants arriving from across the nation. It highlights the diverse representation within the Klan, including an all-woman band, along with the logistical preparations that enabled such a massive assembly. Despite initial resistance from the Klan's leadership to hold the event, local D.C. members pushed for it, emphasizing the factional nature of the group and its pervasive influence in the United States during that era.
They would march that weekend. There was talk that the New Jersey contingent had hired a plane that would fly a giant illuminated cross over the city, like a sign of some perverse providence.
Hiram Wesley Evans -the group's national leader, known as the Imperial Wizard-had originally discouraged the event, but he'd eventually relented to local members in D.C.
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