Unidentified man being arrested/fingerprinted in Whiteville, NC for Ku Klux Klan-related activity, February 1952. Probably related to a February 16, 1952 crackdown in Columbus County, when several Klansmen were arrested for involvement in the kidnapping and flogging of Ben Grainger and Dorothy Martin on October 6, 1951. Arresting officer may be Horace Shaw, detective and director of the Columbus County Bureau of Indentification. The photo appears to have been taken in the old Sheriffs Office which was located upstairs in the Courthouse, Whiteville, NC.