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18 May 2021, 7:21 am by Josh Blackman
But a few decades later, Thurgood Marshall and his team at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund began scouring the country for plaintiffs willing to challenge segregation laws, knowing that the Ku Klux Klan was on high alert. [read post]
30 Aug 2016, 1:17 pm by Kent Scheidegger
"  The fact that the anti-law enforcement side chooses to view "law and order" through a tinted glass does not tinge the object itself.As over-the-top as Trump can be at times, his opponent and his critics comparing him to the likes of Adolf Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan are even more so. [read post]
25 Jun 2015, 2:13 pm
In this regard, honoring Jefferson Davis is particularly egregious, or, for that matter, Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
20 Sep 2016, 1:29 pm by Steve Gottlieb
The question that will be settled by the debates is not just how Trump will, or can, behave, but what proportion of us  are or admire bullies, what proportion of us are prepared to admire Trump supporters like leaders of the Ku Klux Klan because they appear strong, and what proportion of Americans respect careful, thoughtful and considerate behavior. [read post]
11 Sep 2015, 3:00 am by Jeff Welty
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]
27 Sep 2021, 7:58 am by Tom Smith
But the NBC report, like almost all mainstream media coverage, fails an even greater imaginative test: these publications cannot imagine a world outside the framing of the 1960s civil rights era, comparing opposition to critical race theory with racial segregation, Jim Crow, and the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
31 Dec 2008, 10:30 am
No doubt, she knew about the Ku Klux Klan's bombings, lynchings, and murders throughout the South, including Virginia. [read post]
8 Dec 2016, 3:30 am by Eric B. Meyer
However, that same court cited the EEOC’s position on the Ku Klux Klan, where it concluded that the KKK is a political and fraternal organization, and not a religion. [read post]
28 May 2017, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Two weeks later, Evers, a World War II veteran, was shot in the back by local Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith and died in his driveway three weeks later. [read post]
11 Jan 2015, 8:23 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
And in February, The Birth of a Nation became one of the earliest film blockbusters but also raised controversy for its negative portrayal of blacks and its glorification of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
11 Jun 2009, 9:01 am
The result was that, for almost a century, groups like the Ku Klux Klan were free to roam and rampantly deprive citizens of their constitutionally secured rights. [read post]
19 Jan 2016, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The fact that the perpetrators of the violence were never convicted of a crime served to embolden terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and other groups seeking to restore racial hierarchy to the South. [read post]
27 Jun 2022, 6:46 am by Jonathan H. Adler
SPLC's "hate group" designation lumped Coral Ridge's Christian ministry with groups like the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis. [read post]
6 Dec 2016, 6:00 am by Jonathan Bailey
At one point Fahmy argued that the use of the sample was akin to the theme from Jaws being used by the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
12 Aug 2017, 2:44 am by Nicandro Iannacci
Yet his decision in 1923 to join the Ku Klux Klan for two years would dog him for the rest of his career, casting a shadow over the rest of his accomplishments. [read post]
15 Dec 2023, 4:41 pm by Eugene Volokh
" Plaintiff also identifies himself as being an "honorary member" of at least two organizations: the Knight's Party Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and the League of the South. [read post]
27 Sep 2017, 4:41 am by SHG
  At one point, the attorney general compared mask-wearing activists who were attempting to shut down an event at Middlebury College to members of the Ku Klux Klan, even though it could be argued that they were exercising their First Amendment rights. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 3:38 am by Mary Anne Franks
Numerous Christian organizations have condemned Westboro, as has the Ku Klux Klan (that’s right – the Ku Klux Klan finds Westboro’s practices too extreme). [read post]
In retaliation, the Ku Klux Klan burned 24 homes and murdered 50 Black citizens causing a mass exodus from the town. [read post]