Word: klan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State of Alabama last week set out to prove that the cross-burning, sheeted hoodlums of the Ku Klux Klan, though they might get the headlines, did not speak for Alabama. By an 84-to-4 vote, the state legislature made it a misdemeanor ($500 fine, or a year in jail) to appear in public wearing a mask. The bill, quickly signed and put into effect by Governor Jim Folsom, was the first anti-masking law enacted in the deep South since reconstruction days...
Grand Dragon Dr. Samuel J. Green of the Ku Klux Klan gave an interview for The Nation to Negro Journalist Roi Ottley, who told Green that scientific thought and world opinion ran counter to the theory of Negro inferiority. Insisted Green: "I'm still livin' in Georgia, no matter what the world and science thinks." Why, asked Ottley, do Klansmen wear disguises? Explained the Grand Dragon: "So many people are prejudiced against the Klan these days...
Hugo Black, appointed twelve years ago in the midst of outraged objections when Black, an ex-police judge, later a U.S. Senator, had to admit that once he had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama; now rated as one of the best-read, hardest working, most learned justices on the court...
...that strategy ought to be banned as "trouble-making" or "intolerant." An attempt to control the lives and thoughts of every one of us ought not to be permitted to escape criticism by hiding under the blanket of tolerance. For "American Democracy and Catholic Power" is not Ku Klux Klan rabble-rousing, but a picture carefully documented largely from official Roman Catholic sources, of what the Roman Catholic Church is now doing in America and what it would like to do in the future. Sedgwick W. Green...
...Atlanta, a bigoted little obstetrician named Samuel Green, the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, was frantically exhorting his Kleagles and Cyclops to mass for a big night of cross-burning and hate-spieling at Stone Mountain next week to prove to everybody that his movement wasn't on the skids. But one Southern governor had denounced the Klan, without suffering for it, as a mob of "hooded hoodlums and sheeted jerks," and in the past year antimasking ordinances had been passed in Atlanta, Columbus and Macon, Ga., Miami and Tallahassee, Fla., and a number of smaller communities...