Although it didn’t make it into the final design, Plane made an early suggestion to the sculptor that the KKK be included, explaining, “I feel it is due to the Klan[,] which saved us from Negro dominations and carpetbag rule, that it be immortalized on Stone Mountain. Why not represent a small group of them in their nightly uniform approaching in the distance?”21 The park finally opened on April 14, 1965, on the exact one hundredth anniversary of the assassination of President Lincoln. Today Stone Mountain Park is Georgia’s most popular attraction, receiving more than four million visitors
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