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9 Jun 2020, 9:01 pm
Grant signed the Ku Klux Klan Act. [read post]
27 Nov 2023, 8:45 am
" A present-day reader might assume that these additions were designed to quash the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
23 Apr 2018, 3:51 am
The lead officer in the arrests said the counterprotesters were breaking a state law regarding masks, likely referring to a seldom-enforced 1951 law originally aimed at combating hooded Ku Klux Klan members. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 6:46 pm
” ~ KCarl Smith, ConservativeMESSENGERAfrican Americans originally came to America unwillingly, having been stolen and sold by Muslim slave-catchers in Africa to Dutch traders journeying to America in 1619.The Three-Fifths Clause dealt only with representation and not the worth of any individual.In 1857, a Democratically controlled Supreme Court delivered the Dred Scott decision, declaring that blacks were not persons or citizens but instead were property and therefore had no rights.The 13th… [read post]
14 Feb 2013, 11:49 am
Supreme Court case that held that the First Amendment required the reversal of the conviction of a Ku Klux Klan leader under an Ohio statute that prohibited "advocat[ing] . . . the duty, necessity, or propriety of crime, sabotage, violence, or unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing industrial or political reform" and "voluntarily assembl[ing] with any society, group, or assemblage of persons formed to teach or advocate the doctrines of criminal … [read post]
14 Feb 2013, 11:49 am
Supreme Court case that held that the First Amendment required the reversal of the conviction of a Ku Klux Klan leader under an Ohio statute that prohibited "advocat[ing] . . . the duty, necessity, or propriety of crime, sabotage, violence, or unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing industrial or political reform" and "voluntarily assembl[ing] with any society, group, or assemblage of persons formed to teach or advocate the doctrines of criminal … [read post]
14 Feb 2022, 6:30 am
As the federal judicial docket exploded in light of expanding jurisdiction under Judiciary Act of 1875, the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, and expansive interpretations of the latter in the 1960’s, the judiciary as an institution shrunk in the face of its own growing power. [read post]
2 May 2022, 6:01 am
The Pentagon’s official guidance falls short of prohibiting membership in the Ku Klux Klan, the Oath Keepers, and the like, but as the Defense Department has noted, the various restrictions on participation in extremist activities all but prevent membership in practice, if not in text. [read post]
10 Sep 2020, 9:03 am
The Supreme Court created the first version of this defense more than 50 years ago as a limited amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1871, also known as the “Ku Klux Act” because it was meant to protect the rights of freed slaves after the Civil War in the face of the Klan’s reign of terror. [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]
2 Jun 2020, 6:32 am
Their murders of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans made them as feared on the border as the Ku Klux Klan in the Deep South. [read post]
14 Oct 2019, 6:30 am
The white supremacist violence recalled that of the Ku Klux Klan of a century ago, now overlaid with 21st century paramilitary weaponry. [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 9:52 am
Meanwhile, their investigation of a 1919 race riot focused less on the Ku Klux Klan than on civil rights groups that they blamed for inciting the riot (at the height of this riot, a mob of nearly 1,000 white people burned down multiple Black-owned houses and killed Black people without law enforcement intervening). [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]
20 Nov 2013, 8:59 am
At a time when the Ku Klux Klan was active against Massachusetts Catholics and Oregon courts were challenging the legality of Catholic parochial schools, working-class Catholics felt significant threats. [read post]
13 Jan 2013, 9:11 pm
He actually served a term as Judge in a neighboring County earlier in his career despite the objections of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
15 Aug 2017, 3:00 pm
There is another practical reason that we have defended the free speech rights of Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
24 Sep 2021, 7:53 am
It employed white supremacists, including Ku Klux Klan members, from the outset, and its early history included regular beatings, shootings, and hangings of migrants. [read post]
25 Jan 2022, 5:01 am
In Brandenburg, the Supreme Court reversed the conviction of an Ohio Ku Klux Klan leader, reasoning that “the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action. [read post]
22 May 2013, 7:15 pm
As Ira Katznelson demonstrates in a brilliant book, Fear Itself, on the Roosevelt and Truman presidencies, FDR needed congressional support for the New Deal, and the only way he could get it from Southern economic liberals (and former Ku Klux Klan members, like Hugo Black) was to promise that it would be, as much as possible, a "whites only" affair. [read post]
