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The 22,000-square-foot hall could hold some 2,000 people, and it was designed to be a space where the klavern -- a local unit of the Klan -- could practice marches and perform minstrel shows.
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Brandon Tensley,
CNN,
16 June 2022
According to testimony in the 2005 murder trial, Killen served as a kleagle, or organizer, of the Klan in Neshoba County and helped set up a klavern, or local Klan group, in a nearby county.
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CBS News,
12 Jan. 2018
Other homeowners might be more inclined, as is Rake’s good-for-nothing brother-in-law, to pull on their white hoods and attend a meeting of the local Klan klavern in the basement of the Congregational church.
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Marilyn Stasio,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2017
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Brandon Tensley,
CNN,
16 June 2022
According to testimony in the 2005 murder trial, Killen served as a kleagle, or organizer, of the Klan in Neshoba County and helped set up a klavern, or local Klan group, in a nearby county.
—
CBS News,
12 Jan. 2018
Other homeowners might be more inclined, as is Rake’s good-for-nothing brother-in-law, to pull on their white hoods and attend a meeting of the local Klan klavern in the basement of the Congregational church.
—
Marilyn Stasio,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2017
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“Klavern.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/klavern. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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