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10 Mar 2017, 1:19 pm
“I telegraph from Colfax, Louisiana” from “Appomattox” by Philip Glass Morris Chester reports the massacre of one hundred black militiamen by the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
11 Nov 2008, 6:51 pm
Nope, it’s just everybody’s favorite yellow one-third-of-a-pizza chomping down on pellets while avoiding ghosts, or Ku Klux Klan members, or whatever the hell, Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde happen to be. [read post]
22 Jul 2020, 5:30 am
In 1870, Governor Scott appointed him as the assistant adjutant general of South Carolina, providing him with the authority to raise a militia to protect African Americans from the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
5 Jun 2020, 8:05 am
The 1871 act, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, was enacted by the Reconstruction-era Congress to protect the rights of freed slaves after the Civil War. [read post]
20 Jan 2016, 9:01 pm
Let’s say the Ku Klux Klan wants to have a parade in downtown Indianapolis. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 6:05 am
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]
26 Nov 2009, 11:36 am
Over the years, participants in Day of Mourning have buried Plymouth Rock a number of times, boarded the Mayflower replica, and placed ku klux klan sheets on the statue of William Bradford, etc. [read post]
25 Mar 2020, 3:29 am
First, for the students attending that class, please know you have my most sincere, heart-felt apology for the pain Professor Curtis caused many of you when he read aloud the footnote in Brandenburg detailing racist statements made at a Ku Klux Klan rally, which included the most offensive word in the American language — the n-word. [read post]
4 Apr 2024, 10:01 pm
During his lifetime, Washington was fighting an upsurge in white backlash against Reconstruction as well as a revival of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
9 Sep 2020, 3:22 am
All of this might suggest Romano is more a grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan than simply a dissenter to portions of the anti-racism pledge. [read post]
18 Nov 2023, 4:00 am
As I have discussed previously, the Ku Klux Klan leader Clarence Brandenburg referred to a planned march on Congress after declaring that “revengeance” could be taken for the betrayal of the president and Congress. [read post]
20 Apr 2010, 1:00 pm
Think of the Ku Klux Klan (may of whom were economic populists, and favored a massive government role in enforcing segregation) or violence by various Neo-Nazi groups that, like McVeigh and Pierce, look to Nazi Germany as a model. [read post]
18 Aug 2017, 3:38 am
After it was all over, we heard that she was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, which explained a lot. [read post]
2 Jul 2010, 6:15 pm
“It really made lynching and the Ku Klux Klan possible,” said Christopher Waldrep, a historian at San Francisco State University and the author of a forthcoming book about a lawyer who was able, in a rare case, to prove jury discrimination in Mississippi in 1906. [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm
., your typical Ku Klux Klan member, trace their beliefs to a branch of Christianity, but Miller does not fit that bill. [read post]
12 Oct 2017, 4:45 am
I should mention that a number of U.S. states also have laws that make it illegal to wear a mask in public, but most of those were passed in the first half of the 20th century and were aimed at the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
9 Apr 2021, 12:30 pm
Friends, Tuesday April 20 is the 150th anniversary of President Grant signing the Civil Rights Act of 1871 into law, giving the federal government powerful tools to fight the Ku Klux Klan—and giving civil rights plaintiffs a powerful tool, Section 1983, to hold state and local officials accountable for violating the Constitution. [read post]
23 Jul 2021, 3:33 am
To the contrary: the Brown Court enforced the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, one of the federal laws the Supreme Court had earlier gutted, but which nominally prohibited southern states from discriminating against Black people. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 4:00 am
Jon Katz --> ADDENDUM: When the United States Supreme Court reviewed Robert Bell's above-discussed trespassing conviction, dissenting justice Hugo Black -- who belonged to the Ku Klux Klan when a lawyer in Alabama -- included the following footnoted excerpt (n.2) of the restaurant owner's testimony painting himself as a… [read post]
1 May 2007, 7:25 pm
" Even after a childhood of racist oppression and the cruel assassination of both his son Martin by white men and his wife by a deranged black man as she sat at the organ of Ebenezer Baptist Church playing the Lord's Prayer, he daily affirmed that we must never stoop to hate.Yet I came closer to hating Paul Wolfowitz than I ever came to hating Bull Connor, the Ku Klux Klan or the killers of Martin Luther King Jr.You see, I saw Wolfowitz as the neocon policy wonk… [read post]
