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12 Apr 2007, 1:51 pm
[JURIST] The Mississippi Supreme Court [official website] Thursday upheld [opinion, PDF] the manslaughter convictions of former Ku Klux Klan organizer Edgar Ray Killen [Wikipedia profile]. [read post]
6 Feb 2007, 10:16 am
[JURIST] The Ku Klux Klan [JURIST news archive] is experiencing "a surprising and troubling resurgence" largely on the issue of Hispanic immigration, according to a report [summary text] released [press release] Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) [advocacy website]. [read post]
17 Aug 2005, 2:42 am
[JURIST] Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood [official profile] is seeking to revoke the bail of convicted murderer and former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen [JURIST news archives] because of pre-trial death threats made by his brother. [read post]
11 Jul 2006, 6:56 am
[JURIST] A lawyer representing one of 17 Canadians arrested on terror charges [JURIST report] in June argued Monday in an Ontario court that Canada's anti-terror legislation [Canada DOJ backgrounder] discriminates because it focuses only on "brown" Muslim and Arab groups and excludes "white" groups such as the Ku Klux Klan [Wikipedia backgrounder]. [read post]
21 May 2010, 4:42 am by Mary L. Dudziak
This spring, Thomas Russell, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, posted a 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]
10 Sep 2008, 3:01 am
[JURIST] A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday vacated the conviction [opinion, PDF] of former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) [WARNING: readers may find this website offensive; JURIST news archive] member James Ford Seale for his involvement in the 1964 deaths of two 19-year-old black teens. [read post]
14 May 2020, 3:13 am by Walter Olson
In fact, many states and localities have similar anti-disguise laws, most of which date back to the Reconstruction era and were aimed at suppressing the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
25 Jul 2010, 11:03 am by Glenn Reynolds
“With the election of President Obama, race relations in America have obviously come a long way since former Ku Klux Klan member Sen. [read post]
13 Jun 2005, 8:16 am
[JURIST] The trial of reputed Ku Klux Klan member Edgar Ray Killen [JURIST report] began on Monday with jury selection in Philadelphia, Mississippi. [read post]
16 Dec 2008, 4:40 pm
” He is also the son of Don Black, a former national grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 7:22 pm by Peter
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]
4 Jun 2007, 12:09 pm
[JURIST] The trial of former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) member James Ford Seale [Wikipedia profile], accused of kidnapping and killing two black men in Mississippi in 1964, began Monday. [read post]
15 Jun 2007, 2:15 am
[JURIST] A federal jury convicted former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) [JURIST news archive] member James Ford Seale [Wikipedia profile] Thursday of two counts of kidnapping resulting in death and one count conspiracy for Seale's role in the kidnapping and death of two 19-year old teens in Mississippi in 1964. [read post]
7 Jan 2005, 1:05 am
[JURIST] An alleged member of the Ku Klux Klan was arrested in Mississippi Thursday after being indicted by a grand jury for the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers that later inspired the movie "Mississippi Burning". [read post]
8 Feb 2015, 12:52 pm
Wikipedia says: The film is... credited [sic] as one of the events that inspired the formation of the "second era" Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia, in the same year. [read post]
24 Jul 2016, 5:47 pm by Kelly Phillips Erb
(AP Photo/Max Becherer) David Duke, a former Grand Wizard for the Ku Klux Klan, has thrown his hat into the race for the Senate in Louisiana. [read post]
24 Oct 2021, 9:44 am by Tom Smith
The success of such a measure in Oregon (with Democratic votes and Ku Klux Klan leadership) prompted the Supreme Court to hold compulsory public education unconstitutional. [read post]