Two widely circulated Internet memes purporting to show images of Klu Klux Klan rallies at the 1924 Democratic Convention are fake. The memes have been spread by right-wing propaganda sites and social media followers in an effort to discredit the party in the eyes of African-American voters. Snopes.com, one of several Web sites that have been spawned by the Trump administration to debunk fake news, analyzed the photos and determined that neither event took place at the 1924 Democratic Convention.
Keith Girard has four decades of experience as an award-winning reporter, editor-in-chief, and senior media executive. Keith’s career began in Washington, D.C., where he was a reporter for The Washington Post and a contributing editor for Regardie’s and Washingtonian magazines. He also worked as a writer/producer in CNN’s Washington Bureau and has written non-fiction books on the U.S. Marines in the Gulf War and Donald Trump and two novels, “The Heidelberg Conundrum” and “The Curse of Northam Bay.”