To the Editor:

My father, David Flynn of Barnegat Light, and I are writing to express our confusion over the point of revisiting the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Ocean County in 1923, as reported in Thomas P. Farner’s June 14 200 Plus column (“Klan Claims to Support Law and Order”).

We hoped it would be a cautionary tale about fear of change. But it read more like a string of examples to suggest the KKK had somehow been misunderstood: a parade where one organizer claimed the KKK wanted to help the Black…

June 29, 2023