September 25, 2013
In this Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013, file photo, Jimmy Simmons, left, president of the NAACP's Casper branch, listens to John Abarr, a kleagle of the United Klans of America, out of Great Falls, Mont., during a meeting at the Parkway Plaza hotel in Casper, Wyo. Simmons spent several months attempting to organize the meeting due to concerns about reports of violence against black men and Ku Klux Klan pamphleting in Gillette, Wyo. The gathering, which took place in private under heavy security, was the first formal meeting between Klan and NAACP representatives that either side was aware of.
(AP Photo/Casper Star-Tribune, Alan Rogers, File)
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