Notice Signed K.K.K. Posted in Blooming Grove
Navarro County, Texas

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Negroes residing in Blooming Grove are all said to be in the cotton patch today as the result of a notice posted in that town Friday
night, which bore the signature of the three letters— K. K. K.
The notice was as follows:
"The Dreadful Year— The Awful Day and the Awful Hour Will Come— It is suggested that the colored people must pick cotton."
(Signed) K. K. K.
According to the telephone communication from Blooming Grove this morning the negro section of the town is depopulated, all of the residents reporting for duty in the various cotton fields of the community.
According to information received at this office there has been some difference in price between the negroes and the farmers for picking. The negroes are said to have refused to enter the fields for less than seventy-five cents a hundred, the farmers offering fifty cents. It is reported that the fifty cent price per hundred prevails today.
The communication posted is not thought to be an official letter from the Klan as it bore no seal. However, according to all reports it had the desired effect.

The Corsicana Daily Sun - Monday, September 5, 1921