The KKK was reborn on Stone Mountain in 1915 and Klan rallies continued in the town until the late ’70s.
DeKalb County park ranger Horace O’Kelly still remembers the annual Ku Klux Klan rallies that would meet in Stone Mountain and march through Shermantown, a historically Black neighborhood nearby.
“They usually came through on a Saturday,” said O’Kelly, who spent his adolescence in Stone Mountain and graduated from the high school there in 1983. “They started by the cemetery and marched through downtown and turned on Fourth Street all the way down to the park in Shermantown and burned their crosses.”…