Word: klan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South was also Melancthon's riding with the Klan, or, retching, watching the castration of a Negro. It was Storekeeper Casper Fleming, who used Melancthon as a war-haloed decoy to swindle poor whites out of their land in a railroad hoax. It was his own conscience when, realizing the hoax and achingly needing money, he had to decide what to do. More dubiously, the New South was his brother's ice-hearted, erogenous widow Rachel, willing to back the hoax, eager to watch men die, dallying with a nincompoop Yankee officer whom Melancthon felt a need...
Died. Marcellus Elliot Foster, 71, crusading Texas editor; in Houston. Founder and for 25 years editor-publisher of the Houston Chronicle (which he sold to Jesse H. Jones in 1926), he fought the Klan when it was in its political heyday in Texas...
Died. David Bibb Graves, 68, twice Governor of Alabama (1927-31; 1935-39); of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. He was the only Alabama Governor ever to serve two full terms, was preparing, when he died, to campaign for a third. He was nicknamed "the Klan Governor" when he first took office, later dropped his Ku Klux membership. When ex-Klansman Senator Hugo Black went to the Supreme Court bench in 1937, Graves appointed his wife to fill the vacancy...
Firstly, your writer ignored completely the role which the KKK had played in organizing the attack on the Negro families. The riot was by no means a spontaneous uprising, but upon instruction of the Michigan Grand Dragon of the Klan...
...county organizations of the CIO and AFL joined with Negro and white church, youth, fraternal and civic groups to form and support the Sojourner Truth Citizen's Committe. This Committee held a mass meeting last week which enthusiastically approved a four-point program demanding the punishment of the Klan, the city, and the government officials who directly and indirectly instigated the riot...