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25 Jul 2010, 6:26 am
There was an allusion to Robert Byrd supporting the Ku Klux Klan in 1958. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 7:00 am
Judge Charles Pickering, a federal judge in Mississippi who defended the civil rights of blacks for years and defied the Ku Klux Klan back when that was dangerous, was depicted as a racist when he was nominated for a federal appellate judgeship.No one even mistakenly thought he was a racist. [read post]
16 Jul 2010, 5:41 am
In March 2010, Tom posted an SSRN paper: `Keep the Negroes Out of Most Classes Where There Are a Large Number of Girls': The Unseen Power of the Ku Klux Klan and Standardized Testing at The University of Texas, 1899-1999. [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 12:43 pm
Simkins Hall was named for a former UT Law professor and Ku Klux Klan leader. [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 8:28 am
The University of Texas has decided it does not want to have a dorm named after a former Ku Klux Klan leader after all. [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]
2 Jul 2010, 2:27 pm
Charles Sumner’s proposed Civil Rights Bill, to protect the rights of black Americans who were entitled, under the new Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, to equality and freedom, but who were suffering under a reign of terror in southern states ruled by the Ku Klux Klan and allied white supremacists. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 2:26 pm
Men who had helped save the Union while in the ranks of the United States Colored Troops, were to be defenseless against their former enemies previously clad in Confederate Gray, now wearing the robes of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 7:27 am
America's longest-serving legislator, somehow forgiven within the Democratic party for having joined the Ku Klux Klan in his youth (he rose to the rank of "Grand Cyclops" and I don't even pretend to know what that means), and the undertaker of the Atlas-like labor of moving the Federal government, bit by bit, to West Virgnia, Senator Byrd holds part of the record for elections to the Senate (nine times) and has been helping govern the nation and… [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 7:22 pm
Oliva of the Mises Economics Blog had this mean-spirited observation about the self-proclaimed King of Pork (emphasis mine): Robert Byrd, the president pro tempore of the Senate (and former Ku Klux Klan chapter leader), finally managed to die this morning at the age of 92. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 7:01 pm
He will be remembered for many things -- including the Ku Klux Klan membership he came to regret -- but he should be remembered for his appreciation of the potential and fallibility of humans, and the need for the government to look after its poorest residents.Read the post at the National Coalition for the Homeless blog here. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 5:38 am
He was once a member of the Ku Klux Klan (something for which he later apologized) and filibustered against the 1964... [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 4:26 am
Also from Ed Driscoll, who notes Byrd’s “horrific past” with the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 7:03 am
"That's the same Professor Tyson who:--in his capacity as a teacher, attended a guilt-presuming protest outside the lacrosse captains' house, at about the same time the supposed "victim" was taped pole-dancing at a strip club;--publicly asserted about Duke students, based solely on evidence supplied by Mike Nifong, “I think the spirit of the lynch mob lived in that house on Buchanan Street, frankly, and I think that we prefer to think of white supremacists as ignorant,… [read post]
13 Jun 2010, 4:10 pm
Though Black would later be regarded as a champion of civil rights, at the time the talented defense lawyer was only months away from joining the Ku Klux Klan, which held fundraising drives to finance Stephenson’s defense. [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 2:15 pm
When his children ask about the Ku Klux Klan, he says it is a “political organization more than anything. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 8:25 am
The lawsuit alleged Wood referred to women as “whining bitches,” propositioned Mills for sex, spanked Carl repeatedly on the buttocks, made insulting remarks about blacks, and claimed that he had a relative who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 7:41 am
If the Tea Party movement, with its fanatic libertarianism and selfish individualism, were to gain any measure of power, it would wreak havoc on the economy (imagine America without a Federal Reserve System), shred the social safety net, and undermine what exists of the great American community.... it’s very possible to believe that the Tea Party is not the latest manifestation of the Ku Klux Klan or White Citizens’ Councils—while still believing that it is a… [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 7:41 am
If the Tea Party movement, with its fanatic libertarianism and selfish individualism, were to gain any measure of power, it would wreak havoc on the economy (imagine America without a Federal Reserve System), shred the social safety net, and undermine what exists of the great American community.... it’s very possible to believe that the Tea Party is not the latest manifestation of the Ku Klux Klan or White Citizens’ Councils—while still believing that it… [read post]
27 May 2010, 11:48 am
" He even mentioned, in high school, that "it would be cool" to join the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
