Word: klan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brainwashed." But the truth was that all day plans were being laid for violence. In one nearby town, the mayor publicly offered to go bail for anybody arrested. Athens (pop. 20,000) filled with rednecks from all around, including Calvin F. Craig, Grand Dragon of the Georgia Ku Klux Klan, whose pistol-packing henchmen energetically passed out their racist sheet, The Rebel. One of the university's own regents, Georgia Kingmaker Roy V. Harris, charged that President Aderhold and Dean of Men William Tate "brainwashed" the school into accepting Negroes; Harris vowed to spend the rest of his life...
...Union until she died. My grandfather joined with the dissent of the Populists, then with the dissent of Bryan, and finally with the constantly dissenting La Follette." Once, on a wild impulse, carrying dissent further, young Dalton asked his father for $18 so he could join the Ku Klux Klan. ("There was only one Negro in town and I was his friend, but it was a movement everyone was terribly interested in joining.") His father talked...
Obstacle? With those two basic positions stated, the rest of the debate turned on restatements of old positions. Kennedy tossed a low blow by recalling that Grand Dragon William J. Griffin of the Ku Klux Klan had indicated that he was going to vote for Nixon ("I do not suggest in any way that that indicates that Mr. Nixon has the slightest sympathy or involvement . . .") Nixon hedged on answers to questions on nuclear disarmament and control and labor policy by announcing that he would shortly deliver major speeches on these topics...
...Richard Nixon the week's least welcome endorsement came from Tampa Private Eye William J. Griffin, Grand Dragon of the Florida Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
...cracker towns in south Georgia than to cosmopolitan southern Florida, and seems to have reverted to type. Its newest school was named after Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest, and even the kids knew that "Fustest with the mostest" Forrest was one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan. Mayor Haydon Burns is a 48-year-old segregationist with his eye on the Governor's chair and a shuddering distaste for doing anything to promote racial amity. Police Chief Luther Reynolds is a 62-year-old, greying Andy Gump, a man who "does not believe Jacksonville is ready...