Elecia Dexter on replacing editor who endorsed the KKK: ‘I was in shock’

After Alabama newspaper editor Goodloe Sutton published an editorial calling for the Klan to ‘ride again’, Dexter explains how she ended up taking over his role

She had only been working at the Democrat-Reporter, a small town weekly in Linden, Alabama, for a couple of months when the editor, Goodloe Sutton, 79, made national headlines for publishing an editorial suggesting that the Ku Klux Klan – the nation’s most infamous white supremacist organization – ought to “ride again”.

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