(FORTUNE Magazine) – LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. -- A Klansman who is challenging a state law banning public wearing of masks and hoods ((explained why)) he wore a mask during a one-day protest . . . ''I could lose my job . . . if people knew I was a Klansman,'' Shade Miller Jr. said during a hearing in Gwinnett County . . . Court. Miller said he was willing to challenge the 1951 law publicly because ''I felt it was my freedom of speech . . .'' Miller, of Calhoun, asserted that a proper Ku Klux Klan uniform includes the hood . . . ''It's like a suit and tie,'' he said. -- From an AP dispatch.