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28 May 2015, 6:41 am by Alfred Brophy
" The Board cited the board of trustees 1920 citation of Saunders' leadership of the Ku Klux Klan as one of his accomplishments. [read post]
25 May 2015, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
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]
15 May 2015, 10:18 am by Kali Borkoski
Next, in the 1880s members of the Ku Klux Klan were punished, and there was strong agreement among members of the Court that voting rights for blacks should be upheld, which makes very little sense under the view that the Court’s jurisprudence was meant to block Reconstruction. [read post]
12 May 2015, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
  When Mehlinger traveled in the South to investigate a claim, he routinely left the day before the returned trip he had booked, fearful that if he left as scheduled he might be “Ku Klux Klan elements” might take him off the train once in reached a rural area. [read post]
13 Apr 2015, 5:00 am by Ben
 Throughout his career, Tuymans has used photographic source material as a basis for his paintings – including images of hospital patients, archive portraits of national socialists and Nazis, Belgian seminarists and Ku Klux Klan leaders.In  C-201/13 Deckmyn v Vandersteen,  itself a reference from Belgium, the Court of Justice of the European Union decided that ‘parody’ is an autonomous concept of EU law and must be understood… [read post]
13 Apr 2015, 1:11 am by rhapsodyinbooks
As DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University Eric Foner, writing in The Washington Post (3/28/08) points out, “Scholars estimate that during Reconstruction, the turbulent period that followed the Civil War, upwards of 3,000 persons were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and kindred groups. [read post]
7 Apr 2015, 9:16 am by Stefanie K. Vaudreuil
  “Don’t tread on me” says the employee who displays visible tattoos depicting readily identifiable Ku Klux Klan symbols. [read post]
For the same reason the Ku Klux Klan, a racist organization whose history is drenched in African American blood, is permitted to hold rallies espousing its cause. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 6:05 am by Joy Waltemath
The complaints did not all allege the same causes of action, but all or some of the defendants faced claims under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Section 1981, RICO, the Ku Klux Klan Act, FLSA claims for recruitment fees, inbound travel expenses, and visa expenses, and state-law claims for fraud, negligent misrepresentation, breach of contract, money had and received, and breach of fiduciary duty. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 12:23 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The Ku Klux Klan was also gaining ground again in the South, destined to reach its peak in the 1920s. [read post]
25 Feb 2015, 6:10 am
Milbank says that Walker's idea that he would need to talk to Obama about Christianity is an "intriguing standard," and then he lets loose with the snark:I’ve never had a conversation with Walker about whether he’s a cannibal, a eunuch, a sleeper cell [sic] for the Islamic State, a sufferer of irritable bowel syndrome or a grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 2:03 am by Embajador Microjuris al Día
La organización Ku Klux Klan hizo público su apoyo al juez Roy Moore, quien lucha contra el matrimonio entre parejas del mismo sexo, exhortando a los residentes del estado de Alabama “a que luchen contra la tiranía federal”. [read post]
14 Feb 2015, 5:09 pm by Howard Friedman
Meanwhile, a Mississippi Ku Klux Klan faction called for support of efforts to defy federal court same-sex marriage rulings. [read post]
8 Feb 2015, 12:52 pm
Wikipedia says: The film is... credited [sic] as one of the events that inspired the formation of the "second era" Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia, in the same year. [read post]
4 Feb 2015, 7:00 am by J. Michael Goodson Law Library
He was impeached with the backing of the nascent Ku Klux Klan in 1870. [read post]
28 Jan 2015, 2:49 pm
“I’m not going to let a Nazi shoot in here, or a Ku Klux Klan member in here, either. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 6:50 am by Joy Waltemath
The complaints did not all allege the same causes of action, but all or some of the defendants faced claims under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Section 1981, RICO, the Ku Klux Klan Act, FLSA claims for recruitment fees, inbound travel expenses, and visa expenses, and state law claims (ostensibly under Mississippi law) for fraud, negligent misrepresentation, breach of contract, money had and received, and breach of fiduciary duty. [read post]
14 Jan 2015, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
His inauguration speech, written by a leader of the Ku Klux Klan, promised followers “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever! [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]
2 Jan 2015, 8:30 am by Jim Sedor
The group was the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, founded by David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]