Monday’s holiday in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was marred in no fewer than four cities from coast to coast where residents received fliers advertising a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.
Local media reports from across the country suggest that the fliers were distributed on Sunday evening outside homes in cities including Mobile, Alabama; Valdosta, Georgia; Anaheim, California; and Red Bank, New Jersey.
“Happy Birthday, Dr Martin Luther King Jr.” reads an excerpt from a flier that littered a midtown Mobile neighborhood this week alongside a drawing of the slain civil rights leader and the message: “The blacks have NAACP, the Mexicans have La Raza, the Jews have JDL and white people have the KKK.”
KKK fliers distributed in at least four cities on Martin Luther King Day