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25 Mar 2016, 6:26 am
When Black was shortly thereafter revealed to have acquired and apparently never surrendered a life-time membership in the Ku Klux Klan, the public was outraged at the secretive process the Senate had used when considering the nomination. [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]
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]
13 May 2024, 5:01 am
From the 1960s onward, the Supreme Court has even given First Amendment protection to things like a swastika-brandishing neo-Nazi march through a Jewish community, a cross burning on a Black family's lawn, and Ku Klux Klan demonstrations. [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]
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]
30 May 2022, 7:17 am
These groups were born from four primary subgroups of the Movement: Ku Klux Klan, White Nationalists, Neo-Nazis, and Anti-Government Militias. [read post]
14 Jul 2016, 11:24 am
To cite just a few of many examples: In Pennsylvania, three employees were fired after they modified their uniforms to look like Ku Klux Klan members. [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]
12 Apr 2011, 7:35 am
From time to time, street gangs, the Ku Klux Klan, and other obnoxious entities apply for government funding to engage in activity that would be considered worthwhile if undertaken by others. [read post]
5 Apr 2018, 1:01 am
During his lifetime, Washington was fighting an upsurge in white blacklash against Reconstruction as well as a revival of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 9:48 am
In some ways, a more apt comparison for present-day militias would be less the early American militias than the Ku Klux Klan, the Knights of the White Camellia, and other white supremacist organizations that arose in the Civil War South. [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 10:24 am
A child born into the Ku Klux Klan may be taught to hate minorities, but that child's hate only exists because that's all he or she knows. [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]
3 Jul 2020, 11:32 pm
According to the Ku Klux Klan, which was powerful in American politics at the time, racial difference obliterated common humanity. [read post]
22 Jun 2024, 3:00 pm
Defendant called the three "Ku Klux Klan members" and racist city workers. [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]
9 Jun 2009, 7:19 pm
According to a recent article in The Cincinnati Enquirer, the worm turned and bit the City square on the tukus.The city of Cincinnati violated the civil rights of a West Virginia bank holding company by holding it responsible for apartment buildings it foreclosed on, the bank claimed in a lawsuit Monday.Wesbanco Bank Inc. alleged in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court that the city and two of its building inspectors engaged in a pattern of malicious prosecution against the bank.[...]The lawsuit… [read post]
2 May 2012, 12:22 pm
He tried to make it look like members of the Ku Klux Klan were responsible for the calls, and routed the calls through an Internet service that prevented the source of the calls from being identified through caller I.D. [read post]
24 Jun 2021, 6:30 am
But except for a single justly-famous speech from John Bingham from March 1871, the collection ends before the 1871 Ku Klux debates begin. [read post]
