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20 Sep 2015, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On this day in history, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Society Hill Missionary Baptist Church in McComb, Mississippi. [read post]
12 Sep 2015, 10:51 am by Staff Writer
However, the FBI has a history of investigating what is now known as “hate crimes” as far back of WWI when the Ku Klux Klan gained national prominence. [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]
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]
3 Sep 2015, 4:48 am by SHG
Naturally, cries came from the usual suspects that this proves Black Lives Matter is a hate group, like the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
22 Aug 2015, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The Ku Klux Klan, formed in 1866, and other ad hoc groups, did not even feel the need for disguises when they began their reign of terror. [read post]
16 Aug 2015, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On this day in history, an estimated 12,000 men participated in a Ku Klux Klan initiation rite that began in downtown Chicago and ended in the suburb of Lake Zurich. [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 11:13 am by Tom Smith
Sanger supported black eugenics, a racist attitude toward black and other minority babies; an elitist attitude toward those she regarded as “the feeble minded;" speaking at rallies of Ku Klux Klan women; and communications with Hitler sympathizers. [read post]
6 Aug 2015, 1:59 pm by Steve Lubet
He made light of the Ku Klux Klan, calling it a “political organization,” and joking about their threats against the shopkeeper Sam Levy. [read post]
28 Jul 2015, 1:42 pm
Some rejected the Finch presented in "Watchman" — who attended Ku Klux Klan meetings and decries the NAACP — or viewed him as a completely separate character from the Finch in the first novel. [read post]
27 Jul 2015, 5:23 am by Jeff Gamso
 Of course, those crimes are already being tracked, as are groups that encourage them.Research by the Southern Poverty Law Center has found that South Carolina alone is home to six neo-Confederate groups, four white nationalist organizations, two factions of the Ku Klux Klan and three neo-Nazi groups. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 2:02 pm by Ruthann Robson
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law Reports that Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members are considering a rally in Columbia, South Carolina to support the controversial display of the confederate battle flag evokes images of... [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 1:36 pm
" That's from the OED, which gives an example of the word from Frederick Lewis Allen's 1931 book "Only Yesterday/An Informal History of the 1920's": "[The Ku Klux Klan's] white robe and hood, its flaming cross, its secrecy, and the preposterous vocabulary of its ritual could be made the vehicle for all that infantile love of hocus-pocus and mummery, that lust for secret adventure, which survives in the adult whose lot is cast in drab… [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]
25 Jun 2015, 5:01 am
It hailed the rise of the Ku Klux Klan as a sign of southern white society’s recovery from the humiliation and suffering to which the federal government and the northern “carpetbaggers” had subjected it after its defeat in the Civil War. [read post]
24 Jun 2015, 6:48 pm by Tom Smith
The Ku Klux Klan was set up deliberately to destroy this progress. [read post]
24 Jun 2015, 9:20 am
Pinette (1995), Justice Thomas joined the plurality opinion upholding the Ku Klux Klan’s right to display a cross for two weeks in a city park. [read post]
18 Jun 2015, 8:54 am by Joe Consumer
Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
2 Jun 2015, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
In 1871, Congress enacted the Ku Klux Klan Act, one provision of which—now codified at 42 U.S.C. [read post]