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                       From an article in the Atlanta Constitution, Dixie Living section, dated
    Sunday, 18 Feb. 1990:

    Klan vigilantism eventually backfired, however, in March 1940 when Ike
    Gaston, a white barber from East Point, died of exposure after being whipped
    with a long cleated belt.

    His father-in-law wrote a letter to the Klan and said, "Ike is beating his
    wife, wish you'd attend to him." according to Harold Sheats, an Atlanta lawyer.
    He states that "The East Point Klan turned the thing over to Oakland City, and
    an East Point man put the finger on Ike, and they went down there and got him
    when he closed up his barbershop one cold night.  And they carried him out
    somewhere on the west side and whipped him.  Well, that started the whole
    thing."

    Atlanta's newspapers finally took a strong anti-Klan stand after the Gaston
    affair, helping mobilize public sentiment against the order and sparking a
    series of celebrated flogging trials.

    The real reason he was killed by the Klan had nothing to do with any
    alleged wife-beating.  Ike used to get up early Saturday mornings and cut hair
    for his black friends, and that was not the thing to do if you wanted to avoid
    the clan.  (gw)

    From an article in the Atlanta Constitution, Dixie Living section, dated
    Sunday, 18 Feb. 1990:

    Klan vigilantism eventually backfired, however, in March 1940 when Ike
    Gaston, a white barber from East Point, died of exposure after being whipped
    with a long cleated belt.

    His father-in-law wrote a letter to the Klan and said, "Ike is beating his
    wife, wish you'd attend to him." according to Harold Sheats, an Atlanta lawyer.
    He states that "The East Point Klan turned the thing over to Oakland City, and
    an East Point man put the finger on Ike, and they went down there and got him
    when he closed up his barbershop one cold night.  And they carried him out
    somewhere on the west side and whipped him.  Well, that started the whole
    thing."

    Atlanta's newspapers finally took a strong anti-Klan stand after the Gaston
    affair, helping mobilize public sentiment against the order and sparking a
    series of celebrated flogging trials.

    The real reason he was killed by the Klan had nothing to do with any
    alleged wife-beating.  Ike used to get up early Saturday mornings and cut hair
    for his black friends, and that was not the thing to do if you wanted to avoid
    the clan.  (gw)