Colored folks take KKK over another Indiana winter

Indianapolis Sentinel - January 3rd 1881

Too Cold for the Colored People.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. - Today another batch of colored folks went through, having had one taste of Western winter and being satisfied. They were on their way from Greensburg Indiana, to which place they emigrated last January, from Wilson County, North Carolina. They state that they could not stand the cold climate of Indiana, and preferred to return to their old homes. They said they had plenty of work in Indiana, and the people treated them very kindly and paid them every cent they agreed to do for their labor, but notwithstanding all that they could not live there so happily as in North Carolina. They had plenty of means to carry them back, and were not dependent upon charity. One of them said that they would rather face North Carolina Ku-Klux than an Indiana winter.