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29 Nov 2021, 1:32 pm
Commonly known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, the law contains a rarely used provision that allows private citizens to sue other citizens for civil rights violations.For more coverage you can check: Politico. [read post]
2 Mar 2023, 11:49 am
The case centers on the use of the Enforcement Act of 1871, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, which holds parties liable for conspiracy to interfere with public officials’ duties. [read post]
4 Apr 2016, 7:48 am
”As president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson reintroduced segregation into the federal work force, admired the Ku Klux Klan and did not believe that black Americans were worthy of full citizenship.The board also rejected a demand that faculty and staff submit to cultural competency training and that students take a course on the history of a marginalized people. [read post]
25 Dec 2020, 11:43 am
In its complaint, the NAACP noted that many of the Trump campaign's lawsuits seek or sought to invalidate Black votes. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 3:00 am
" That law, passed in 1951, was intended to deal with the Ku Klux Klan, but in this case it was applied to a teenager wearing a clown mask with bright red-orange hair. [read post]
15 Aug 2017, 4:02 am
Briefly: Constitution Daily looks at three Supreme Court cases involving the Ku Klux Klan that posed “fundamental First Amendment questions about the ability of organized white supremacists to speak and demonstrate in the public forum. [read post]
9 Feb 2022, 1:17 pm
Listen to find out more about Senator Jones’ experience prosecuting the two unconvicted Ku Klux Klan members who led the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, his passion for improving polling equality for eligible voters, and his approach to teaching his class “The US Senate Today: How it Works, Why it Doesn’t” at BC Law. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 7:00 am
Judge Charles Pickering, a federal judge in Mississippi who defended the civil rights of blacks for years and defied the Ku Klux Klan back when that was dangerous, was depicted as a racist when he was nominated for a federal appellate judgeship.No one even mistakenly thought he was a racist. [read post]
14 Apr 2020, 7:03 am
” The law (OC GA 16-11-38) was enacted in 1951 to prevent public wearing of Ku Klux Klan hoods and other head and face coverings. [read post]
21 Jan 2018, 3:36 pm
In The New York Times is a review of the anthology A Time to Stir: Columbia '68, edited by Paul Cronin.Linda Gordon's The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition and Felix Harcourt's Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s are reviewed in an essay in The New Republic.In the Los Angeles Review of Books is… [read post]
13 Feb 2019, 7:16 am
By Sam Brunson Tax Lien by Nick Youngson, CC BY-SA 3.0, Alpha Stock Images, Original image at The Blue Diamond Gallery.A year and a half ago, I learned that in the 1940s, the IRS revoked the Ku Klux Klan’s tax exemption and sued it for almost $700,000 in back taxes. [read post]
17 Jan 2016, 1:51 pm
by Emily Bensinger Edmunds It should go without saying that dressing up as a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) member in modified work clothing at work is unacceptable conduct in the eyes of any employer. [read post]
17 Jan 2020, 12:01 am
Since the Ku Klux Klan presence in Texas was strong, it was too dangerous to sustain an interracial marriage there, so the couple moved to Chicago in 1873. [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 3:30 am
Obasogie and Newman establish that pre-war slave patrols in the Southern states mutated into a loose web of post-war private and public racial vigilantism driven by “militias, the Ku Klux Klan, and eventually (in some areas) what we now call ‘the police. [read post]
13 Apr 2015, 1:11 am
As DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University Eric Foner, writing in The Washington Post (3/28/08) points out, “Scholars estimate that during Reconstruction, the turbulent period that followed the Civil War, upwards of 3,000 persons were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and kindred groups. [read post]
25 Mar 2017, 1:01 am
Following a trip to the Montgomery airport to shuttle fellow activists she was shot by members of the Ku Klux Klan, while driving. [read post]
22 Jul 2009, 7:04 am
Perhaps you’ve seen some of the news reports from Paris, Texas, about simultaneous demonstrations planned by the New Black Panther Party and the Ku Klux Klan after murder charges were dropped by the authorities against the two white men accused of killing a black man by running him over by a truck and then dragging him. [read post]
5 Mar 2008, 1:40 pm
The Knights Party is an affiliate of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
11 Jul 2018, 4:00 am
., including the Ku Klux Klan, various neo-Nazi organizations, and associated white supremacists, held rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia. [read post]
14 Feb 2015, 5:09 pm
Meanwhile, a Mississippi Ku Klux Klan faction called for support of efforts to defy federal court same-sex marriage rulings. [read post]
