part of this book may be reproduced<br >form or by any means， electronic or<br >photocopying， recording or by any<br >t retrieval system without the written<br >isher， except where permitted by law.<br > ~t States of America<br >1982<br >Or~ that cold day， large slips of paper printed in red<br >were mysteriously scattered through the streets of Pal-<br >myra， Tennessee. Stray winds whipped them along the<br >lanes and fields and they stuck to fences and trees and the<br >front of buildings.<br > KU KLUX WILL PARADE TONIGHT!H<br > Word spread to the countryside and a large， curious<br >crowd gathered in the rasping darkness and smell of oil<br >lamps along the street. People looked excited， a child here<br >and there perched on a father s shoulder， all eager to see<br >the show. They talked of the nightriders whose numbers<br >were growing throughout the South. Few people in that<br >part of the state had seen them and most wondered what<br >they looked like.<br > "I heard they dress like devils，" a man said. "They got<br >horns and their horses are painted red."<br > "Why they get up like that for?" another said.<br > "Scare niggers， I hear."<br > "You don t have to tell a nigger nothing but a little hell<br >to scare him."<br > "Not these times， old man." The speaker looked around<br >to see ff there were any negro militia in town， or Yankee<br ><br >