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KU KLUX KLAN NOW HAS FOOTHOLD IN FRANCE SAY REPORTSPARIS, Feb. 8—A branch of the Ku Klux Klan has been organized here, and its first official act was to get American residents here to sign a petition to the French government asking the deportation of all colored Americans now living in France. The Klan, it is said, will seek to effect this through the co-operation of the American embassy.The anti-Negro feeling of white Americans here is something fierce, but the flames of hatfed have been fanned recently by the exploits of two colored men who soundly thrashed and deeply humiliated three American whites when the latter attempted to introduce jim crow laws unofficially and independent of the French government and people. Influential American whites had the colored men locked up on a charge of assault, but they were released when the colored men showed war service papers.The American whites thereupon resorted to spreading the most vicious and unfounded lies against the colored men. They alleged that one of the colored men, Dick Bullard, was outlawed from the French aviation service during the war for cowardice in refusing to attack German planes. Bullard is credited with having accounted for seven German planes, two blimps and captured two planes and their crews before he was himself disabled.In the scrap with the American wdiites, he accounted for two by the K. O. route and without so much as disarranging his faultless attire.
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Phoenix Tribune
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Sat, Feb 17, 1923
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