"The 'Alabama Mystics,' an organization formed among the officers of the Alabama brigade, will make heir initial appearance Friday night [for Mardi Gras] in a beautiful street parade and grand ball at the Santa Cruz Club." During the national guard mobilization to hunt down Pancho Villa.
"The Ku Klux Klan, the invisible empire of the south during the terrible days of that section's reconstruction during the Civil War, has been chosen by the "Alabama Mystics" as the subject of the parade which will pass through the streets of Nogales tonight."
-- Nogales Daily Herald, 1/24-26/1917, in The Great Call-Up, Harris & Sadler, 2015
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