remember speaking at interval a c.p. branch in dallas about nineteen forty seven and after i had spoken and people were shaking in one i felt a hug around the neighborhood and let down there's this little girl looking up at me and saying i know that you do you go on to mean my folks in income tell us what a fiction to do. stetson kennedy you know was something of a legend i've heard about him for many many years and he was a guy who worked with congress in all kinds of racist groups to try neuter the klan infiltrated the klan and infiltrate it very very effectively and i think it's a great mistake to think about the klan in terms of a few nuts or french people who are psychopaths. racism has been a part of the american system and as far back as you can go. and the question was simply didn't care or just unfortunate arm of it. in the mid one nine hundred twenty s. the klan and over four million members you know at a time when the country was much much smaller than the klan in the twenty's controlled state governorships they cont