Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...noted that without an historical context, the recent surge of extremist attacks on abortion clinics across the country seems to be an aberration, when in fact the violence of the 1990s is part of a "historical continuum of rightwing thought...
...said, in the 1990s that distinction has essentially been forgotten by many extremists...
When the native Liberians eventually rebelled against the government in the early 1990s a civil war began. Because of Sierra Leone's humanitarian aid to the Liberian government, the rebels invaded Sierra Leone...
King and Brewer joined a local prison chapter of a gang called the Confederate Knights of America, a small North Carolina-based Klan faction that recruited heavily from biker groups and prison inmates in the early 1990s. He began getting tattoos that would cover 65% of his body. His body art was a litany of racist images, including Nazi SS lightning bolts, Klan emblems and a black man lynched from a tree. One witness, psychiatrist Dr. Edward Gripon, suggested the tattoos may have been a way to make the 5-ft. 7-in., 165-lb. King look forbidding to threatening...
...question isn't academic. In the 1990s hate has grown up and logged on. The Ku Klux Klan doesn't use the term cross burnings anymore; it prefers "sacred cross lightings." Klansmen have waged more legal war than race war in the past few years, trying (mostly in vain) to persuade local judges to let them Adopt-a-Highway. "If somebody comes up with a bottle of Jack Daniel's in one hand and a shotgun in the other and says, 'Let's go kill 'em all,' I say, 'You're not for our group,'" says Jeff Coleman, grand wizard...