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13 Mar 2022, 3:53 pm
From blocking laws that prevent Ku Klux Klan members from wearing masks to restraining Alabama officials from forcing the NAACP to disclose its membership lists, and to refusing companies' requests to unmask online critics, courts have recognized that anonymity is a vital part of our free speech protections. [read post]
25 May 2015, 1:01 am
Ironically, the Ku Klux Klan became reenergized by the returning black veterans, who wore their uniforms and seemed to know no fear, and thought they could assert their equality. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 2:26 pm
Men who had helped save the Union while in the ranks of the United States Colored Troops, were to be defenseless against their former enemies previously clad in Confederate Gray, now wearing the robes of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 11:45 am
"IPBiz notes that Forrest was a lawyer and was involved in the founding of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
20 Aug 2007, 10:41 pm
Moore writes: Besides terrorists, the Justice Department has successfully prosecuted Ku Klux Klan bombers, members of violent groups like the Weathermen in the 1960s and ’70s, and members of Italian organized crime in the ’80s and ’90s. [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 1:43 pm
There is no place in the American justice system for the so-called “battle flag” of the Ku Klux Klan and the Knights of the White Camellia, no place for the symbol of the oppression and terror which they so often inflicted in the dead of night. [read post]
9 Sep 2010, 1:52 pm
As the Constitution protects the right to burn an American flag as a political protest, for the Ku Klux Klan to rally at a state capitol, for neo-Nazis to march down an American street, then surely there is a right to burn a Quran or any other sacred symbol. [read post]
2 Jul 2010, 2:27 pm
Charles Sumner’s proposed Civil Rights Bill, to protect the rights of black Americans who were entitled, under the new Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, to equality and freedom, but who were suffering under a reign of terror in southern states ruled by the Ku Klux Klan and allied white supremacists. [read post]
11 Sep 2015, 3:00 am
As the Washington Post reports here, a Kansas jury has recommended a death sentence for Frazier Glenn Miller, a former Grand Dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
24 Jun 2019, 11:00 pm
The immigration led to a resurgence in Ku Klux Klan activity, including in Oregon. [read post]
25 Jul 2010, 6:26 am
There was an allusion to Robert Byrd supporting the Ku Klux Klan in 1958. [read post]
24 Jun 2019, 11:00 pm
The immigration led to a resurgence in Ku Klux Klan activity, including in Oregon. [read post]
8 Jul 2018, 1:01 am
His latest book, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, tells the story of other historical moments in which vicious, hateful forces (like the Ku Klux Klan) have contended with inclusive, liberal movements (such as for civil rights) and leaders (FDR, Truman, and Lyndon Johnson) for defining what America is and should be. [read post]
28 Aug 2021, 1:01 pm
The plaintiffs allege six counts against the defendants in the complaint: violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act (“KKK Act”) – conspiracy to interfere with civil rights, and failure to prevent the same (counts 1 and 2); violation of DC Bias-Related Crimes Act (“BRCA”); battery; assault; and negligence. [read post]
1 Sep 2017, 8:32 am
In The Washington Post’s Retropolis blog, DeNeen Brown revisits the constitutional oath taken by Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice, which was administered by Justice Hugo Black, a white justice and former member of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 12:23 am
The Ku Klux Klan was also gaining ground again in the South, destined to reach its peak in the 1920s. [read post]
9 Apr 2009, 8:52 am
Black's brief membership in the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama would make his confirmation rocky, but on the court he proved a reliable supporter of civil rights. [read post]
27 Nov 2010, 3:53 pm
And he describes how the rivalries and personality clashes among the four liberal allies eventually drove them apart: Hugo Black's determination to take revenge on those who offended his Southern sense of honor led him to retaliate not only against Jackson and Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone but also against the racist Southerners who had disclosed his former Ku Klux Klan membership to the press. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 7:27 am
America's longest-serving legislator, somehow forgiven within the Democratic party for having joined the Ku Klux Klan in his youth (he rose to the rank of "Grand Cyclops" and I don't even pretend to know what that means), and the undertaker of the Atlas-like labor of moving the Federal government, bit by bit, to West Virgnia, Senator Byrd holds part of the record for elections to the Senate (nine times) and has been helping govern the nation and… [read post]
26 Jun 2012, 1:21 pm
She alleged that she was subject to racial epithets, references to the Ku Klux Klan, threats of physical harm, and other harassing conduct. [read post]
