Ku Klux Klan Artifacts Unearthed in Mississippi

0:00It's March 30, this is Durham News Today, driven by AI. Mississippi State workers stumbled on some chilling Ku Klux Klan artifacts while cleaning out an office, including a notebook full of meeting minutes, and a ledger tie to the group's secret operations. These items got handed over to the Department of Archives and History, and officials say sorting through everything will take several months to fully, catalog, and understand. Several rights leaders see this as a stark reminder of the Klan's brutal past in the state, stressing, we got to preserve these records to make sure that, whity, hate doesn't creep back in. The Klan kicked off right after the Civil War, started by ex-Confederates, and quickly turned to terrorizing black folks with lynchings, church, burnings, and worse, especially ramping up in the 1960s with killings like the Mississippi burning case and a synagogue bombing. By archiving this stuff and shining a light on it, stay safety leaders hope to keep future generations from falling into the same dark path, proving, history's lessons hit hardest

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