“… hating the Klan sent him to jail repeatedly, rounded up by the Klan cops and put in front of a Klan judge with a Klan-packed jury. It was reported at the time that he was sent to the Muncie jail so often that inmates would applaud when he'd return. “

https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/

#GeorgeDale #journalism #Muncie #Indiana

What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com

"George Dale — Indiana’s Jazz Age version of a Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart — focused his ridicule on a powerful group famous for wearing nighties and “mother goose caps” around cornfields at night. That group, of course, was the Ku Klux Klan, whose grip on big cities and small towns alike led to its near-domination of state politics in the 1920s."

https://blog.newspapers.library.in.gov/koo-koo-side-lights-george-dale-vs-the-klan/ #KKK #antifa #fascism #politics #GeorgeDale#resistance

“Koo Koo Side Lights”: George Dale vs. the Klan

If you enjoy today’s “farcical newspaper” The Onion, in 1922 you might have sent in two dollars for a subscription to George R. Dale’s eccentric and fascinating Muncie Post-…

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Woher kommt #americafirst?
Nicht von #DolonMump , sondern vom #kukluxklan !

Was sollen wir angesichts der 20% #Nazis im #bundestag und der #bevoelkerung tun?
Vor allem anderen: #Nicht #aufgeben , sondern sich ein #Beispiel an #georgedale nehmen und dagegen angehen!

What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/

What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com