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Georgia Gov. Clifford Walker said at a 1924 Ku Klux Klan meeting that he'd "build a wall of steel" against immigrants.

On 8 January 2019, presidential biographer Jon Meacham tweeted what he described as a quote from the year 1924 made by then-Georgia Gov. Clifford Walker during a speech given at a Ku Klux Klan gathering:

America should “build a wall of steel, a wall as high as Heaven” against the flow of immigrants.–Georgia Gov. Clifford Walker, at a 1924 convention of the Ku Klux Klan, then a powerful force at a time of strain for the white working class. #PastIsPrologue

— Jon Meacham (@jmeacham) January 8, 2019

As a country, we have survived and prospered under worst conditions. But it wasn’t fun or easy or quick!

For more information see

Did Clifford Walker Say at a 1924 KKK Rally That He Would Build a ‘Wall of Steel’ Against Immigrants?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/governor-of-georgia-kkk/

Jon Meacham: 2018 National Book Festival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbvg2UIrLTw

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