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8 Feb 2009, 10:41 pm
  Word is that there's a "welcome" sign as you enter Tenaha, Rotary on Tuesdays at the Dairy Queen and Ku Klux Klan on Thursdays at the Piggly Wiggly appetizer counter.And some politicians would have you believe that traditional American values are dead. [read post]
9 Sep 2018, 12:59 pm by John Floyd
It is part of the civil rights act of 1871, found in Section I of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. [read post]
9 Jan 2019, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The Ku Klux Klan had a small anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant following in Connecticut in the 1920s, reaching about 15,000 members before its collapse nationwide in 1926 following scandals involving top leaders. [read post]
12 Sep 2015, 10:51 am by Staff Writer
However, the FBI has a history of investigating what is now known as “hate crimes” as far back of WWI when the Ku Klux Klan gained national prominence. [read post]
29 Jan 2021, 12:39 pm by John Ross
New on the Bound By Oath podcast: the origins of Section 1983—originally known as Section 1 of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 12:35 pm by Guest Blogger
As the NAACP points out, in the line of cases initiated by Slaughter-House, "the Court enunciated principles far broader than were necessary to decide the matters at hand, and it too readily struck down Congressional legislation designed to combat discrimination against African Americans after the Civil War, including both the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror and the establishment of a reconfigured caste system in the form of the Black Codes and Jim Crow. [read post]
12 Jul 2022, 11:11 am by Josh Blackman
That is, the Ku Klux Klan Act would override contrary state laws--whether embodied in statute, state constitutional law, or common law. [read post]
2 May 2009, 7:51 am
In 1922, Oregon voters approved a referendum, supported by the Ku Klux Klan, that abolished private schools. [read post]
10 Dec 2008, 9:54 am
" In a speech in the General Assembly the following day, the delegate from the Byelorussian SSR remarked that the clause guaranteeing freedom of expression "could be cited in its present form by fascist organisations, such as the Ku Klux Klan, to justify their activities. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 3:15 pm
La frase citada parece salida de alguna proclama perdida del Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
25 Nov 2008, 9:17 am
Jury nullification was also used frequently in the Jim Crow South to thwart the prosecutions of Ku Klux Klan members and other whites who had intimidated, attacked, and murdered blacks. [read post]
15 Sep 2022, 12:00 pm by Justin Hendrix
Peters, Meta’s Cox was seemingly unaware of research from the Tech Transparency Project, an advocacy organization, that found Facebook has automatically generated pages for white supremacist figures and groups, and that Facebook searches for some groups with names including the phrase “Ku Klux Klan” generated ads for Black churches. [read post]
17 Aug 2008, 5:58 pm
So too, people may think that government may not regulate speech unless it can show a clear and present danger, but fail to settle whether this principle is founded in utilitarian or Kantian considerations, and disagree about whether the principle allows government to regulate a particular speech by members of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 11:59 am by Andrew Hamm
” As Fortas would write more explicitly in a 1972 op-ed in the New York Times, “as a Southerner—born and brought up in the Mississippi Delta—I recall the outrages of the Ku Klux Klan, directed against Jews, Catholics, and Negroes. [read post]
30 Apr 2016, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
” One such list, for example, based on analysis of racist tweets and the number of Ku Klux Klan organizations known to operate in the state, puts Louisiana at number eight. [read post]
22 Nov 2009, 1:37 pm by Lawrence Solum
So too, people may think that government may not regulate speech unless it can show a clear and present danger, but fail to settle whether this principle is founded in utilitarian or Kantian considerations, and disagree about whether the principle allows government to regulate a particular speech by members of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
14 Sep 2017, 8:00 am by Daniel Perlman
This law was originally passed as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, which was intended to curb oppressive conduct by government and private individuals participating in vigilante groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
27 Feb 2023, 3:00 am by jonathanturley
It supported the right of the Ku Klux Klan to speak out, even though it is a hateful organization. [read post]
21 Nov 2018, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
But white conservative Democrats [at that time the party of the conservative right] regained control of the state legislature in 1870, and thanks to Ku Klux Klan violence and terrorism at the polls, were able to suppress black voting. [read post]
1 Dec 2014, 6:17 am
“We’re talking about hundreds of emails; we’re talking about calling SSI a ‘hate group,’ and comparing us to the Ku Klux Klan, and even saying that my English was not good enough to serve on the committee,” Sinelnikov noted…. [read post]