SHARING THE PAST
Foreword -R.G. Tomlinson In November 1997 a spokesman for Ku Klux Klan said that they were coming to Boerne. He said, “We were wanting a rally and membership drive around Thanksgiving and Kendall County members had expressed some interest in it.” Authorities asked that local residents not come to the rally, to be held on the steps of the Kendall County Courthouse. There was a heavy police presence but only one arrest. The rally fizzled and ended early. The following is memoir of that day by Brent Evans
Kendall County elected Henry Hodge in 1997, the first Black sheriff in Texas since Reconstruction. So, the Klan announced they were coming to Boerne to protest. There was a lot of talk in town about going to protest the Klan’s protest; as such, Henry Hodge’s Sheriff’s Department would have to protect the Klan from residents.
