Speech #850097212

I did not find anything I could understand until I reached the top of page 10 of the House committee report where are found the words: Section 1985 of title 42. United States Code. often referred to as the Ku Klux Act. That is the first thing that awakened any consciousness in my system. because my father was an immigrant from Sweden. and I early learned that the principles of the Ku Klux Klan were that no person who was either a Jew. a Catholic. or an immigrant. could be a good citizen. My father had done his best. with the limited ability that an immigrant without education has. to be a good citizen. But I abhorred the organization that said he could not be a good citizen. I recall that when World War II came. he had two sons who started to officers training camp almost as soon as the war began.