6. Proclamation against the Ku Klux Klan, 1922

Oregon Governor Benjamin W. Olcott issued this 1922 executive proclamation in response to three assaults in southern Oregon perpetrated by members of the Medford klavern, a local organizational unit of the Ku Klux Klan. The first victim, a white piano salesman from Medford, had been kidnapped and threatened with hanging, while the other two men, one Black man and the other half Mexican, according to one account, were taken out into the country and terrorized with nonfatal lynchings, known as necktie hangings.

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