A klansman stands guard at a joint rally of the Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and Knights of the White Kamellia of the Ku Klux Klan stands guard along a path leading to a cross lighting ceremony on October 10, 1998, in Vidor, Texas, following protests related to the dragging death of James Byrd in nearby Jasper, Texas. ©1998 James Edward Bates.