Memory Café hears how Dan Moody fought the Klan

  • Danelle Houck (right foreground), educator for the Williamson Museum, leads a Camille’s Memory Café tour group March 17. Participants learned about District Attorney Dan Moody and his successful 1923-24 prosecution of four Ku Klux Klan members. Photo by Brad Stutzman

    Danelle Houck (right foreground), educator for the Williamson Museum, leads a Camille’s Memory Café tour group March 17. Participants learned about District Attorney Dan Moody and his successful 1923-24 prosecution of four Ku Klux Klan members. Photo by Brad Stutzman

    Danelle Houck (right foreground), educator for the Williamson Museum, leads a Camille’s Memory Café tour group March 17. Participants learned about District Attorney Dan Moody and his successful 1923-24 prosecution of four Ku Klux Klan members. Photo by Brad Stutzman
As President Harry Truman said, “the only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.” With that in mind, Camille’s Memory Café had an educational focus March 17. Participants and volunteers traveled to the Williamson Museum for a tour and lesson on how 100 years ago District Attorney Dan Moody took on the Ku Klux Klan, putting four of their members in prison for the savage beating…

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