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24 Jul 2020, 5:44 pm by Yalitza Ledgister
Michael Donald was brutally beaten and hung on a tree by Ku Klux Klan members in Mobile, Alabama on March 21, 1981. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 11:56 am by Evelyn Douek
Facebook banned hundreds of accounts, groups and pages associated with the boogaloo movement, Snap removed President Trump’s account from its promoted content and YouTube shut down several far-right channels, including that of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. [read post]
22 Jul 2020, 5:30 am by Robert Brammer
In 1870, Governor Scott appointed him as the assistant adjutant general of South Carolina, providing him with the authority to raise a militia to protect African Americans from the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
19 Jul 2020, 7:01 am by Anna Meier
Currently, Change.org hosts 20 petitions calling for the Ku Klux Klan to be labeled a terrorist organization. [read post]
10 Jul 2020, 11:54 am by Tom Smith
Yes, abortion proponents concede, Sanger spoke at a Ku Klux Klan rally, carried on friendly correspondence with segregationists, used the “n” word, and described herself as “mainly responsible for arousing interest in the negro programme” targeting African American procreation. [read post]
3 Jul 2020, 11:32 pm by David Kopel
According to the Ku Klux Klan, which was powerful in American politics at the time, racial difference obliterated common humanity. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 12:04 pm by James Hirsen
… As noted in a publication from the United States Commission on Civil Rights, a prominent supporter of this ban was the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
17 Jun 2020, 4:00 am by Comunicaciones_MJ
Hay que recordar que el trato distinto por razón de raza no necesariamente se proyecta tan virulentamente como en las organizaciones como el Ku Klux Klan (KKK), en la conducta de los policías involucrados en los tres casos mencionados o, incluso, en el linchamiento reciente de Ahmaud Arbery en Georgia. [read post]
6 Jun 2020, 9:16 am by Nathaniel Sobel
§ 1983—a statute originally passed to assist the government in combating Ku Klux Klan violence in the South after the Civil War—and the Supreme Court’s decision in Bivens v. [read post]
5 Jun 2020, 8:05 am by Marcia Coyle
The 1871 act, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, was enacted by the Reconstruction-era Congress to protect the rights of freed slaves after the Civil War. [read post]
1 Jun 2020, 2:04 am
Every year in the 1960s saw African-Americans killed by white supremacists, either by lone gunmen, or by mobs, or by organized groups like the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
28 May 2020, 12:06 pm by Mara Revkin
Other works were not explicitly Islamophobic but nonetheless treated “jihadist” armed groups as an exceptional and uniquely radical category—different from other types of ideologically motivated movements that have also used violence to achieve political objectives, such as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a heterodox Christian armed group in Uganda, and the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan in the United States. [read post]
14 May 2020, 3:13 am by Walter Olson
In fact, many states and localities have similar anti-disguise laws, most of which date back to the Reconstruction era and were aimed at suppressing the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
3 May 2020, 8:55 pm by Omar Ha-Redeye
Although this decision was subsequently constrained by other decisions, for nearly a century it empowered groups like the Ku Klux Klan to engage in domestic terrorism, especially in vote suppression of Blacks. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 7:09 am
According to one committee chairman, the avowed purpose of that convention was to “establish the supremacy of the white race,” and the resulting document included many of the trappings of the Jim Crow era: a poll tax, a combined literacy and property ownership test, and a grandfather clause that in practice exempted white residents from the most onerous of these requirements....Adopted in the 1930s, Oregon’s rule permitting nonunanimous verdicts can be similarly traced to the rise… [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 6:53 pm by Ed. Microjuris.com Puerto Rico
En el caso de Oregón, similarmente, la enmienda a la unanimidad del veredicto vino de la mano del Ku Klux Klan, con el fin de diluir la influencia de minorías raciales, étnicas y religiosas en los jurados de ese estado. [read post]
14 Apr 2020, 7:03 am by Manny Marotta
” 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]