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Many people think of the Ku Klux Klan as being a fixture in the South back in the day. But the reality is that in the 1920s, the Klan also had a stronghold in Detroit. In the 1920s, the notorious white supremacy group almost elected Charles E. Bowles as mayor of Detroit.

Tim Kiska, a former Detroit News and Free Press reporter who is an associate professor at the University of Michigan- Dearborn, tells the story in his weekly look-back series.