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The merits: A photograph shows a KKK billboard in a N Carolina county where a contempo Donald Trump rally took identify

An outdated photo circulating on social media has led some to believe sometime President Donald Trump recently held a rally in a North Carolina county that has a billboard promoting the Ku Klux Klan.

The prototype, shared thousands of times on Twitter, shows a scarlet billboard that reads, "Help fight communism and intergration (sic). Bring together & back up United Klans of America Inc." A banner along the lesser of the sign announces that "the KKKK welcomes you to Smithfield."

Numerous social media users posting the morning later on Trump's Apr 9 rally in Selma, Northward Carolina, said the photograph was from the aforementioned county. Trump hosted the event in support of congressional candidates running in the midterm elections.

"This is Johnston County NC where trump held his rally last night," one Facebook post reads. "Explicate how the gop is not a rubber oasis for white supremests (sic)?"

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The mail borrows language from a popular tweet including the same image, which accrued more than 4,700 retweets and 8,600 likes within four days.

But the claim is misleading, every bit contained fact-checking organizations accept reported. Though the billboard in the photo once stood in Johnston County, it was taken down almost 50 years before Trump's Selma rally, according to The Raleigh News & Observer.

U.s. TODAY reached out to several users who shared the post for annotate.

A billboard, which stood along U.S. seventy in Johnston County. The billboard said, "This is Klan Country. Love It or Leave It. Assist Fight Communism & Integration. KKK Welcome to Smithfield."

Billboard photo from 1970s, no relation to Trump rally

The history of the sign in the image begins in 1967, when the Johnson County affiliate of the United Klans of America first erected a billboard with the same messaging. The Raleigh News & Observer reported in 2019 that it was put on individual property in Smithfield, North Carolina, which borders Selma.

After the original billboard was defaced, the group mounted a new version and added lighting in 1972. According to the News & Observer, a reporter for the Smithfield Herald noted this sign spelled "integration" as "intergration" – the aforementioned misspelling nowadays in the photo featured in the social media posts.

The photograph in the social media posts is a all the same from the 1976 moving-picture show "Brotherhood of Death," in which a fictional grouping of Black Vietnam War veterans attempts to free their hometown from KKK terrorists. The picture ends with the characters leaving town to avoid retribution from the KKK, and the Smithfield billboard serves as the last shot.

More than: Freedom Riders traveled deep into the South in 1961. Klansmen beat them, and then set their motorcoach on fire.

The billboard was taken down for good in 1977, the News & Observer wrote, "because the owner of the land, Jimmy Rogers Flowers of Clayton, wanted to build a real estate office on the site." Flowers' blood brother had been president of the county KKK grouping.

While some who replied to the tweet of the billboard wrongly assumed it was still standing, several others noted the billboard was removed decades before the rally.

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Our rating: Missing context

Based on our research, nosotros rate MISSING CONTEXT the claim that a photo shows a KKK billboard in a North Carolina canton where a recent Trump rally took place, because without further context it could exist misleading. The billboard shown in the photo was located in Johnston Canton, but information technology was taken downwardly in 1977. It has no relation to the Apr 9 Trump rally in Selma.

Our fact-check sources:

• ABC xi, April 9, Sometime president Donald Trump holds rally in Selma Saturday endorsing NC lawmakers

• Google Reverse Image Search, accessed April 13

• IMDB, accessed April xiii, Alliance of Death (1976)

• IMDB, accessed April 11, Brotherhood of Death Photo Gallery

• Truvian Village via YouTube, March ane, 2013, Alliance of Expiry (1976) Full Movie

• The News & Observer, July 23, 2019, What's the history of Ku Klux Klan billboards most Smithfield?

• Political leader, April 7, Local conservatives revolt against Trump House favorite

• Reuters, April 12, Fact Check-KKK billboard was not congenital ahead of Donald Trump'south North Carolina rally in April 2022

• Southern Poverty Law Center, accessed April 13, Ku Klux Klan

• U.s. TODAY, October. 3, 2021, Freedom Riders traveled deep into the South in 1961. Klansmen beat them, so set their bus on burn down

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