Word: klan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such groups, Archbishop Gushing told the Archdiocesan Union of Holy Name Societies, were a "refined form of the Ku Klux Klan." Cautioning Catholics against being "dazzled" by slogans about separation of church and state, and similar "glittering generalities," he said: "Our people are in a very precarious position thanks to the extremely hard, though evil work, which contemporary anti-Catholics have done . . . The damage they are accomplishing in creating prejudice on the one hand and uneasiness on the other is very considerable indeed...
...security of the U.S. ... Does Harper's advocate the view that a person decline to furnish facts to an investigator that would establish the innocence of a person unjustly accused? Does Harper's believe that the government of the U.S. should employ members of the Ku Klux Klan or of the Communist Party, by urging persons possessing such information not to communicate it to an investigator when interviewed...
...trial was probably the biggest prosecution of the Ku Klux Klan since reconstruction days. In Birmingham, Ala., 18 men had been indicted for the brutal wave of floggings, cross-burnings and intimidation that swept Alabama's hill country last summer...
...that she recognized Lollar's voice among a hooded mob that had hauled her mother, her sister and herself, together with three men visitors, into the woods and whipped the three of them with a rope after a preacher had prayed over them. A man whipped by the Klan testified: "I recognized Brownie Lollar when he laughed...
Died. Dr. Samuel Green, 59, scrawny, nervous, Himmler-mustached Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan;* of a heart ailment; in Atlanta. A small-time obstetrician who looked more like a frustrated shoe clerk than the ruler of an Invisible Empire, Green climbed the Klan ladder in comparative obscurity until he got the job of Grand Dragon. Postwar, he shuffled off Klan debts, whipped up membership, emerged as undisputed führer of racial and religious bigotry in the South...