During this troubling rally, roughly 1,000 klansmen and 100 policemen were involved.
Seven men were arrested in total, and Fred eventually was discharged. At the time of this incidence, he would have just been 21 years old, too.
The story seems pretty incriminating—but Snopes analyzes the article and explains there’s nothing directly documenting Fred as being a member of the racist community.
There’s also no evidence he was charged with race-related crimes following the incident.
