Word: klan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after a Negro's house was shot up, and there was talk around town that night riders had been driving Negro families out of the county. Such terrorism caused Georgia's oldest weekly, the Milledgeville Union Recorder (est. 1819) to raise its voice against the Ku Klux Klan. "It is time people quit winking at law violations," it declared. "This is not Germany or Russia . . ." The paper demanded a grand jury investigation...
...after he refused to fire three Catholics from his administration, he was opposed by the 10,000 members of Sam Houston Klan No. 1. The Klan started a campaign of vilification, denouncing him as a chronic drinker and gambler. A Baptist, Holcombe demanded that the Baptist Ministers' Association try him on the charges at a public hearing. Although nine of the 13 ministers on the "jury" were Klansmen, they cleared him after a one-day "trial" held at the Rice Hotel a week before election. He won the election. Three campaigns later, however, he was defeated. One reason...
...Macon, Ga., the Ku Klux Klan initiated 300 new members in a public ceremony in the City Auditorium. Among the participants were 150 masked women. One Klansman, apparently believing that the education of prospective members can't be started too early, brought along his young daughter-in full regalia, except for mask...
...prodding Georgia newsmen, Toombs County Sheriff R. E. Gray first reported that Mallard had been killed by men wearing "some white stuff." The Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, Dr. Samuel Green of Atlanta, who insisted the local Klan robes were all locked up that night in the Klavern, opened his own investigation. Soon he had statements from Toombs County law enforcement officers, including Sheriff Gray, exonerating the Klan. Said the sheriff: "This Negro was a bad Negro, as I have had dealings with him. I further know that this Negro was hated by all who knew...
...days later it had its own answer to who killed Robert Mallard. As she left her husband's funeral services, Mrs. Mallard was arrested by the G.B.I. on a charge of murder. Blandly, the arresting officer, Lieut. William E. McDuffie, announced: "It is our belief that they [the Klan] are not guilty of shooting Mallard." But he gave no basis to reporters for charging Mrs. Mallard. Dumfounded and hysterical, the widow screamed again that men in white robes had killed her husband. Released without bond, she fled terror-stricken into the woods, shivered all night in a rainstorm, finally...