May 7, 1921.—At Beaumont, Texas, Dr. J. S. Paul was seized by fifteen masked men, whipped, tarred, and feathered and given forty-eight hours in which to leave the city. At the same time R. F. Scott, a Marine Corps veteran of Deweyville was given the same treatment. These two acts were publicly admitted by the Beaumont Klan, and their charter was revoked by “Emperor” Simmons.
May 20, 1921.—One thousand men marched through the streets of Dallas, Texas, at night, mounted and unmounted, all of them attired in the Ku Klux regalia. They carried a fiery cross, and several banners bearing these words: “The Invisible Empire,” “White Supremacy,” “Pure Womanhood,” “Dallas Must Be Clean,” “Our Little Girls Must Be Protected,” “All Native Born,” “The Guilty Must Pay.” They rode and marched through the streets silently and without interference from the authorities. Announcements of the purposes and objects of the Klan had previously been accepted and printed by the Dallas papers.
May 21, 1921.—At Sour Lake, Texas, Joe J. Devere, a justice of the peace, was tarred and feathered.
May 23, 1921.—Ku Klux Klan paid $10 fine in police court at Dallas, Texas, for tacking signs on telegraph poles.
May 23, 1921.—At Dallas, Texas, John Moore, white, was seized in his home by masked men, taken to the out-skirts of the city, stripped of his clothing and lashed with a horsewhip. He was accused of attacking a twelve-year-old girl. He fled town.
May 23, 1921.—At Houston, Texas, Ira McKeown, taxi driver, was beaten.
May 24, 1921.—At Dallas, Texas, John Parks was flogged by masked men.
May 25, 1921.—Jack Morgan, of Shreveport, was tarred and feathered by masked men.
June 8, 1921.—Dr. R. H. Lenert, at Brenham, Texas, was whipped, tarred, and feathered by eight masked men. He was charged with “disloyalty during the war” and with “speaking German.”
June 8, 1921.—At Waco, Texas, K. Cummings was taken from his home by masked men, but escaped from his abductors.