Word: klan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hugo Black, only living man to have belonged to both the Ku Klux Klan and the U. S. Supreme Court, got a Thomas Jefferson medal from the Conference for being "the Southerner who has done most to promote human welfare...
Potent in school elections, they found, are class-conscious citizens' groups, the Ku Klux Klan, Freemasons, whispering campaigns against Catholics, Jews and Negroes, and, in some cities, the Catholic Church...
...months after the war, lanky, blue-eyed Cavin Darcy, heir to a big Texas cotton plantation, goes home with a Georgia bride, immediately becomes a leading Ku Klux Klan guerrilla and politician in the sacred cause of States' Rights. The main story covers the years when Reconstruction violence is at its height. Author Krey's historical background (from the planters' viewpoint) is well informed. But Cavin's leading part is woodenly dramatized. Although he rides with the Klan, is away for weeks on secret political missions, the reader catches him only when he has returned...
Reporting of the fact that Supreme Court Justice Hugo La Fayette Black was once a member of the Ku Klux Klan won Raymond Sprigle of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette...
Raymond Sprigle of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette won the award for distinguished reporting with his series exposing the one-time membership of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black in the Ku Klux Klan. For his Broadway success, "Our Town," the dramatic prize went to Thornton Wilder...