On this date in 1906, 3,000 blacks demonstrated and rioted in Philadelphia in protest over a theatrical presentation of Thomas Dixon's "The Clansman," which claimed to be the true story of the "Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy."
It was the Klan that overturned Reconstruction. As a result of this protest, 62 blacks were reported lynched.
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