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A high school student in Wisconsin this week sparked social media posts and outcry after he wore a Ku Klux Klan costume while giving a class presentation earlier this week. The student, who was not identified in the media, told administrators that he wore the white hood to go along with his project about the 1920s. But that didn't stop students at Westosha Central High School and residents near Salem from speaking out.
"I just can't believe someone would actually put that on," alumnus Brett Sandberg told WGNTV.
The student had been participating in a class assignment on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," which is set in the '20s, the NY Daily News reported. He focused on the crime of the era, during which membership in the KKK peaked at 4 million.