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Back in the late 1960s, the City Council in Freeport, Il. (not far from Applesauce World Headquarters), found itself embroiled in a controversy over an American flag.
The Star and Stripes in the council chambers at Freeport City Hall had become faded with age and needed replacement, whereupon the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks offered a new flag as part of its so-called Americanism program.
But it just so happened that in those days, the Elks Club barred membership to non-white folks. If memory serves, an Elks member couldn’t even be married to a non-white.
Consequently, a petition ...
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