Eloise and Albert Williams - On the Ku Klux Klan (clip)
Interviewed by Rob Stephens on October 8, 2009
Eloise Williams (EW): They dealt with the “rebbish” [white people in Carrboro] but we dealt with the Ku Klux.
Rob Stephens (RS): Out where you were?
Albert Williams (AW): Yeah, on 54. They’d have Klan rallies in that field, in that section.
EW: Yes, sir. They would scare you half to death, peeking all up in your windows. We’d be half ready to jump out of your boots and you would call the police. They would come, look around, and go on about their business. It’s like, “Well, we haven’t seen anything.”
AW: They might have been in it.
EW: Right! They could have been. Every time they’d come, they never could find anything or any traces of anybody being around or anything. It was always the same story.
AW: They would have their Klan rally, sheets and all.
RS: You said they would come tap on your window?
EW: Yeah, they’d come to the door. You’d be half scared to death. It was just like somebody knocking on your door. You’d see somebody with a face, but they would disappear. It was so scary because they’d come late at night. And then they would swear, the cops would come and say, “Oh we haven’t seen anybody around here or anything.” And I said, “I know that’s not true. Why does it keep happening so many times.” And I knew those people remember, keeps them jacked up.
