It’s a story that many of us have heard all our lives – at one time, Binghamton was the New York State Headquarters for the KKK. Sadly, those stories were true.
For a brief time in the early 20th century, Binghamton was home to the New York state headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan. On St. Patrick's Day in 1923, city residents were shocked to discover pamphlets promoting the Klan had been left at their homes.