100 years ago, hundreds of KKK members marched through Forest Grove—and were pelted with eggs

On Tuesday, November 27, 1923, just two days before Thanksgiving, hundreds of hooded men in white robes slipped into Forest Grove and began an unannounced march.

"The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were for the first time on parade in Forest Grove," a news story read.

For the most part, it drew a crowd of onlookers, and opposition from some of Forest Grove's younger citizens.

"From out of the misty darkness came a volley of eggs of questionable age and character, besplattering Bandsman, Klansman, and bystanders alike."

Several young men came forward to confess their egg-throwing. They were, as far as one account in the Forest Grove News-Times goes from 1923, the only element in Forest Grove to confront the berobed bigots.

The account from the December 6, 1923 edition of the News-Times is below. That newspaper described the activities of the Ku Klux Klan, an organization with a large presence both socially and politically in Oregon at the time in glowing terms and condemned the egg-throwers, making no mention of the KKK's white supremacist, anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant views.

After that, we've got other news clips of a less serious nature from Forest Grove from the same date.