Word: klan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presbyterian Church. In a five-day conference at Birmingham, the 97th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. drafted a sharply worded statement condemning discrimination in the schools, defending Koinonia, the besieged interracial community at Americus, Ga. (TIME, April 29), and scourging the Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens' Councils...
...this nation, where Christianity and democracy are bywords," said the assembly, "it is unthinkable that a Christian should join himself to Klan or Council whose purpose is to gain its point by intimidation, reprisal and violence, or that he should lift no voice of protest against those who appeal to prejudice and spread fear...
...activities have so far incurred no censure from the responsible citizens of Florida. Kasper admitted to a crime which is an affront to the segregationist ethic: he had danced, traveled, and corresponded with a Negro girls, whom he had met in his Greenwich Village bokstore: to the Ku Klux Klan, of course, all this equals miscegenation...
...picture of the "Montgomery Battleground" is too much to take. My friends do not wear "wool hats" or carry sticks of dynamite, nor have they ever condoned any violence against the colored people or ever attended any mass meetings to organize against Negroes or belong to the Ku Klux Klan. That there are Christians among the ignorant whites may be almost unbelievable to your intelligent readers in the North. My friends do have one thing in common: they have or are becoming nonsubscribers and nonreaders of your magazine...
...hoodlumism, "are the people of Clinton going to continue to sit idly by and see their officials kicked around merely because they believe in law and order?" Georgia's Eastman Times-Journal (circ. 2,530), which was credited with killing off a postwar revival of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia in 1950. has been one of the few papers in the South to urge Negro voters to go to the polls...