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19 Nov 2015, 9:01 pm
My first reaction, upon considering this phenomenon, was to imagine a story in The Onion (a satirical online magazine) titled “Ku Klux Klan Acknowledges Racial Bias in IQ Tests; Seeks to Remedy By Executing More Minorities. [read post]
9 Oct 2018, 10:46 am
As Virginia Van Der Veer detailed in an 1968 issue of American Heritage, rumors about Black’s past membership in the Ku Klux Klan had circulated after his nomination, but only in September did a series of articles by Ray Sprigle of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette present evidence that broke open the story. [read post]
20 Sep 2020, 1:01 am
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]
10 Jul 2012, 3:03 am
Nevertheless, Hoover saw communists everywhere, except in the Ku Klux Klan and the mafia. [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 9:25 am
By day’s end, the Ku Klux Klan had rolled into town, burning the homes of blacks to the ground and chasing hundreds into the swamps, hell-bent on lynching the young men who came to be known as “the Groveland Boys. [read post]
26 Feb 2007, 2:57 am
The domestic-law equivalent would be exonerating from a charge of complicity in a hate crime someone who buys guns, ropes, gasoline, and bed sheets for the local Ku Klux Klan, on the ground that there is not enough evidence of hateful motivation. [read post]
4 Dec 2013, 8:35 am
Yet French magistrates — acting upon the demands of something called the Council of Croats — have brought "preliminary charges" against Dylan for "public insult and inciting hate" in France: French magistrates have pressed preliminary charges against Bob Dylan, a poster child of the American civil-rights movement, for allegedly violating antidiscrimination laws in a 2012 magazine interview in which he appears to compare Croatians to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 5:57 pm
Experts differ on Brandenburg impact (ABA Journal, January 14, 2021): “Could a 1969 case involving a Ku Klux Klan leader protect President Donald Trump from incitement charges in connection with the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. [read post]
12 Aug 2022, 5:55 am
” Following the May 13 demonstrations, a North Carolina-based chapter of the Ku Klux Klan — The Loyal White Knights — applied to demonstrate in Charlottesville. [read post]
6 Sep 2023, 2:35 pm
In American Knights Ku Klux Klan v. [read post]
23 Sep 2019, 10:37 am
., the Ku Klux Klan, American Nazi Party. [read post]
21 Sep 2020, 10:40 am
Spencer and his crew opposed that effort and everything they thought it implied, including hostility to the legacy of whiteness.The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were similarly motivated by the perceived threat to American whiteness. [read post]
22 Aug 2021, 7:01 am
White supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) emerged throughout the South and, through the use and threat of force, intimidated or prevented Black people from voting and otherwise helped Democrats opposed to Black equality to gain power. [read post]
27 Apr 2019, 1:01 am
Unable to countenance the freedom of their former slaves, white Southerners tried to suppress blacks in every way they could, with many joining the newly formed Ku Klux Klan to ensure that blacks stayed “in their places. [read post]
13 May 2021, 11:32 am
This spring, students at Columbia University filed a formal complaint against an adjunct professor, the general counsel of Human Rights Watch, after she mentioned the same racial slur several times in a classroom anecdote while recalling a deposition conducted by a lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center, who liberally used the word as part of a ploy to get a member of the Ku Klux Klan to open up. [read post]
6 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm
Olson whether a Black Santa posing for Christmas photos in a mall should have to sit for a picture with “a child who’s dressed up in a Ku Klux Klan outfit. [read post]
19 Jul 2009, 8:17 pm
Such did little to halt the Ku Klux Klan's frustration of Reconstruction. [read post]
28 Jan 2013, 6:09 am
Smalls sought to desegregate the military and he argued for the continuation of federal troops to protect freedmen from the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and affiliated groups.By any estimate, Robert Smalls is an American hero - a brave warrior, an ardent champion of civil rights, an effective representative for the people of South Carolina and an inspiration for thousands, if not millions, of Americans of all races. [read post]
2 Jan 2018, 10:30 am
He is also probably the first candidate in history to win the presidency despite having been shown repeatedly by the national media to be a chronic liar, sexual predator, serial tax-avoider, and race-baiter who has attracted the likes of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
15 Sep 2017, 9:00 am
On September 15, 1963, members of the Ku Klux Klan planted dynamite during Sunday service at the 16th Street Baptist Church, killing four young girls: Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley. [read post]
