Hundreds of people — young and old, black and white and Asian, gay and straight, Christian ministers, Jewish rabbis, Muslims, and a Quaker poet — gathered in Albany on Saturday to “stand up against all forms of hate"” as organizer Fazana Saleem-Ismail put it.

Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center said that the Altamont group was "inactive" in 2015. 

We blushed with shame as we leafed through crumbling copies of our newspaper to illustrate our article on the KKK; in the 1920s, we carried notices of Klan meetings without any hint of criticism. How far have we come?

ALTAMONT —The Southern Poverty Law Center, an internationally known organization that tracks the activities of hate groups in the United States, has put Altamont on the map — the Hate Map.

Published last month in the center’s Spring 2015 “Intelligence Report,” and posted online at its website, www.splcenter.org, the Hate Map for 2014 lists Altamont as the only location in New York State to have an active chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.