The Ku Klux Klan is planning a second annual "kookout" in Madison, Indiana, for Saturday, an event that was met last year with hundreds of protesters.

The group plans to hold the event at Jaycee Park from 1-3 p.m. on Saturday on the riverfront, according to an event flyer.

The flyer flier the event reads "Make America Safe! Make America Drug Free! Make America White! Make America Great! Take a Stand!!! Join the Klan!!!" And at the bottom of the page, "Never! Never! Apologize for Being White!"

About 300 people protested last year's event, saying the Klan's message was divisive and not welcome in their town.

Residents from surrounding towns have said in the past they don't want to be associated with the KKK.

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In May, Madison authorities told the Cincinnati Enquirer that barricades and other measures to keep trouble from arising at these events can be expensive, but they don't want to stifle free speech.

An anonymous klan spokesperson said in an email to the Courier Journal on Monday that the Madison Parks and Recreation Department denied the rally's reservation but "we do plan to be there" anyway.

The denial, the statement said, was based on the event being public. The flyer announcing the event said the private event requires an invitation.

"We have informed them that without the presence of the police and some sort of barricade to keep the violent protesters out, there's bound to be a problem," the spokesperson said, adding that the Klan has taken up the issue with their attorney.

"With the Madison parks department refusing to honor our previously accepted reservation, less than 30 days before our attendance was to be expected, we are unable to fulfill their demands," the spokesperson continued. The demands were that the group have a million-dollar insurance policy "simply to allow us to have a family Kookout."

"They are discriminating against us due to our beliefs and the name we go by," the person said.

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The klan plans to sue the city of Madison and its parks and recreation department over the issue, the person said.

David Stucker, the Madison department's director, hasn't responded to a Courier Journal email seeking comment on the event.

After World War I, Indiana was a platform for the "most powerful Ku Klux Klan," according to the Indiana State Library's website.

"It was made up of native-born, white Protestants of many income and social levels," the site's page on the KKK goes on. "In the changing world of the 1920s, the group was against Catholics, Jews, African-Americans, immorality and drinking."

Madison, named after the country's fourth president, is about an hour's drive northeast from Louisville.

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