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KNIGHTS COUNCIL IN GREENSBORO 100 YEARS OLD THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL, A FRATERNITY AND CHARITY, BEGAN WHEN THERE WERE FEW CATHOLICS IN THE CITY AND PREJUDICE AGAINST THEM WAS WIDESPREAD.(TRIAD)
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The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
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November 24, 2004| Author:
Schlosser, Jim
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Byline: JIM SCHLOSSER Staff Writer
The one-paragraph announcement in the weekly Greensboro Patriot in November 1904 said 45 men had formed a Knights of Columbus council in Greensboro.
What it failed to say - perhaps for good reason - was the Knights of Columbus was a Catholic organization.
In 1904, it would be safe to say, most of the city's 10,000 residents were Protestants. Many harbored stereotypes because Catholics were so few. And many Protest...