Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlanta, before the war, was headquarters for a profitable national business in hocus-pocus for race-prejudiced joiners: the Ku Klux Klan. Since the war, it has been no secret in Georgia that the Klan was trying to come back in a big way. In the past eight months there have been cross-burnings atop Stone Mountain. But secrecy is a part of the Klan's appeal-and the Kluxers kept their affairs to themselves...
...responded, clambered to the treeless, rock-strewn peak at night. They saw some 700 men wearing white, hooded sheets, and one who wore a rich green robe. When the Grand Dragon took off his mask he was, as everybody well knew, Dr. Samuel Green, a middleaged, small-mustached Atlanta physician...
...shirt-sleeved audience sweltering in the frowzy, faded yellow hall on Atlanta's Ivy Street included labor leaders from Texas oil fields, Alabama steel furnaces, North Carolina textile mills. They had gathered to be knighted for a new crusade. Up rose portly, grizzled Van Bittner, 61-year-old veteran organizer and director of the C.I.O.'s drive to unionize the South, to make the dedication...
Last week N.Y.U. named its first full-time Negro professor: Dr. Ira Reid, 45, able chairman of Atlanta University's sociology department. His new one-year post: "visiting professor of Negro culture and education...
Southern-born Ira Reid went to Atlanta's Morehouse College, did graduate work at the London School of Economics, took a Ph.D. at Columbia. Says he: "There will be 6 ft. 4 of the Negro problem standing up before the students. I do not need to discuss it separately...