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Word: klan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funny. For instance, a "Right-Wing Palmistry Chart" contains an "itchy trigger finger" and a "party line." Instructions for "the extremist dance" include "take one step to the Right" and "swing over to the Left." Yok. A list of "known extremist groups" intersperses organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Muslims with thigh-slappers like the Mickey Mouse Club and Peter, Paul and Mary...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: 'Extremism': A Moderate Pan | 10/8/1964 | See Source »

Pike County has been a center of racist violence for the past few years. Both the Ku Klux Klan and the Americans for the Preservation for the White Race have been widely organized in that area...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: Three Arrested For Miss. Bombings; Others Suspected Says Police Chief | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

McComb is a town of about 12,000 in southwest Mississippi. This region has been the center of revitalized Ku Klux Klan activity and of the new Society for the Preservation of the White Race...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: 11 New Bombings Continue Long Legacy of Violence In Southwestern Mississippi | 9/30/1964 | See Source »

...EXTREMISM. Unlike the G.O.P., which vetoed a similar plank at San Francisco, the Democrats condemn "extremism, whether from the right or left, including the extreme tactics of such organizations as the Communist party, the Ku Klux Klan, and the John Birch Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM: Will It Lead to The Great Society? | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

...look as if "it is the kooks who support Goldwater." The press and television had not given such treatment to the Democrats, he charged. "Why don't they put the question to that Communist, Gus Hall, on whether he is for President Johnson?" asked Miller. "The Ku Klux Klan always supports the Democratic Party," he said, with a rather outdated perspective, "but it is never asked about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Coverage: The Republicans & the Reporters | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

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