Word: antimasking
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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...
Student Stephens demanded that his floggers be punished. The University's President William Bennett Bizzell ordered an investigation. The Oklahoma City newspaper urged criminal prosecution under the State "antimask" law. Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, who has often called athletics and fraternities "tomfoolery and idleness," exclaimed that "the modern system of universities begets lawlessness." He. too, demanded that the floggers be exposed and punished...
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