Henrico County Branch NAACP officials and top county officials urged residents to push back against white supremacy as the Ku Klux Klan targeted Glen Allen neighborhoods to distribute recruitment fliers in the dead of night last weekend.

“We condemn their hate-filled messages and the disgusting mythology they represent,” said Henrico County Manager John A. Vithoulkas during a news conference Tuesday outside the Central Police Station off Brook Road near St. Joseph’s Villa.

Mr. Vithoulkas was joined by the Rev. Tyrone Nelson, chairman of the Henrico County Board of Supervisors, and Raiford Beasley, president of the Henrico NAACP.

“The message that these fliers are pushing will find no fertile ground to grow here,” Mr. Vithoulkas said. The news conference was called after recruitment fliers from the Roanoke-based Confederate White Knights of the KKK were found on Sunday morning in more than 100 driveways in the Bluebell Court area off Mountain Road in Glen Allen.

Along with the Klan’s typical racist invective, passages from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible were included on the fliers. Henrico Police was alerted around 9 a.m. Sunday morning, according to Mr. Vithoulkas.

“I challenge every Henrico citizen to stand up and protect the quality of life that we are entitled to by standing against all hate organizations and individuals,” Mr. Beasley said.

Fliers also were found around the same time around nearby Greenwood Road in the Brookland District, according to Brookland District Supervisor Dan Schmitt, who released his own statement on Wednesday decrying the KKK’s presence.

The officials encouraged anyone with information to contact Henrico Police at (804) 501-5331.

“We’re going to do everything we can to make sure that hatred and the KKK’s message does not permeate or find itself welcome here in Henrico County,” said Rev. Nelson, who represents the Varina District on the board and is pastor of Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church in Richmond’s Jackson Ward.

Klan activity has been present in the area in recent months. Members of the North Carolina- based Loyal White Knights of the KKK held a recruitment rally outside the Hanover County

Courthouse on Fourth of July weekend and distributed fliers in that county in February.

Angry and concerned residents held a protest July 24 launched by the Hanover County Branch NAACP and flooded a meeting of the Hanover County Board of Supervisors to protest officials’ inaction over the KKK rally at the courthouse.

Robert N. Barnette Jr., who leads the Hanover County NAACP and recently was named president of the Virginia State Conference NAACP, told the Free Press on Wednesday that residents of Hanover’s Cold Harbor District also found KKK fliers in their driveways during the weekend from the same group that hit Henrico.

“We do not support hate speech or these types of terrorist groups in the county,” Mr. Barnette said. “The KKK is a known terrorist group. They promote division.

“We are going to continue to speak and make sure that our voices are heard,” he said.