a fellow can not work in Calif. and belong to the Klan if the Boss knows it….

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Two Manuscript Letters complaining about the Ku Klux Klan in Redondo Beach and Ocean Park, California, plus 2 envelopes, VG. "M.A. Midaris" writes about the Ku Klux Klan in California during the 1920s. Both letters are addressed to Mr. Grant Gardner of Jerome, Arizona, a mining town, and are accompanied by two original stamped envelopes, both with minor wear and stains. Includes; Jan. 3, 1924 letter from Ocean Park, CA, three pages, written in pencil, with minor staining along the edges and corners. In small part, "…I have not been doing any good for myself just making a livin that is all. This is a good country to live in, but a poor place to get a head, ore it has been for me… I went to a Ku Klux Klan meeting some time ago. The first I was ever at was asked to join but I did not. I am under to much of a handicap as it is without them. A fellow can not work in Calif. and belong to the Klan if the Boss knows it…. ...plus, Oct. 10, 1924, letter from Redondo Beach, CA, written in pencil on lined paper. This letter, complains about work conditions: "…I am not working much now… I do not look for any change until spring and if Coolige is not elicted look out for H(ell) it is coming. I can see it. Everybody belongs to the K.K.K. you can not go any whare but you see K.IG.Y. on the Road. I saw 10,000 of them at one time… thing(s) are bad here. A fellow runs a chance of getting his head nocked off at any time…"

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