Police officer stands with R.F. McGarry, member of the Black Legion secret society, Los Angeles, 1936

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Police officer stands with R.F. McGarry, member of the Black Legion secret society. Black Legion was an organization that had ties to the Ku Klux Klan and operated mainly in Detroit, Michigan in the 1930s. The organization targeted African-Americans and slayed Silas Coleman on May 25, 1935., Text from original nitrate sleeve: Black Legion; McGarry, R.F; In pen: Secret Sociation., Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: R.F. McGarry - Black Legion., Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.