Superman vs. the KKK

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The Man of Steel has taken on plenty of sinister criminals and organizations, but in a 1947 radio adventure, he went up against some very real and very frightening bad guys: the KKK.

Lefty journalist Stetson Kennedy had gone undercover in the Klan, and on a lark he'd shared some of their codewords and other top-secret info with the creators of the Superman radio show. The Superman boys ran with it, pitting the last son of Krypton against the KKK in a series that won praise from the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the American Newspaper Guild and the African American newspaper chain, the Calvin Newspaper Service.

Hey, this was the guy who regularly kicked the butt of Lex Luthor, world class supervillian. What chance did a bunch of dumbasses in white sheets have?

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