KKK Kicked Out Monument - Lilly, PA
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N 40° 25.532 W 078° 37.300
17T E 701757 N 4477705
Commemorates the day in 1924 that the people of Lilly kicked out the Klan.
Waymark Code: WMNZ5M
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 05/27/2015
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April 5, 1924. Lilly was targeted for a massive Ku Klux Klan demonstration because local coal mines had hired Catholic immigrants and fired Klan members. Four hundred hooded Klansmen arrived by train early on this April evening and paraded to Piper's Hill where they burned two crosses and exploded multiple dynamite charges to intimidate the locals. But the townspeople were not cowed! During the parade back to the trains, the Klansmen were jeered, pelted, roughed-up and hosed down. Gunfire broke out and lasted for several minutes. The Klansmen then fled in disarray to the trains, leaving Lilly residents Philip Conrad, Cloyd Paul and Frank Miesko to die from gunshot wounds.
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