Just days after the state moved to separate Capitol rallies by a civil rights group and the Ku Klux Klan on Martin Luther King’s birthday, another group was given the Klan’s rallying spot Tuesday.
Instead, the local chapter of Frontiers International, an African-American group, filed an application for the space the state had allocated for the Klan rally.
Ryan and Atty. Gen. Roland Burris said Friday they had no choice but to allow the KKK to hold a rally Jan. 15 at the Capitol.
A Chicago civil rights group, Fulfilling Our Responsibility Unto Mankind, had reserved the grounds on the east side of the building, which faces the state’s King statue.
Murphy said that as a result of the permit to Frontiers International, there is no other area of the Capitol grounds that the Klan can try to reserve on King’s birthday.
