Word: antimask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...violence is rare. The year 1952 was the first without a single reported lynching. Many of the South's "better people," who for years tacitly condoned the Klan, have now abandoned it. It is socially as safe to back antimask bills as it was once to take hot broth to an ailing Mammy's cabin...
...Northern newspapers, McGill angrily wrote: "Let anything suggestive of Ku Klux Klan violence happen in Georgia or the South nd the Northern and Eastern papers are certain to give it front-page play and bitter editorial condemnation. But we have searched in vain for comment on ... passage of the antimask bill, which . . . signals the death and burial of the Klan nd its code in Georgia ... It is much easier to criticize than to praise...
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