Word: klan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fifty of the organization's supporters stopped the showing of the film in Adams House dining hall Saturday night, saying they objected to its treatment of blacks and glorification of the Ku Klux Klan...
While all was calm in Montgomery, Boston was still reeling from angry demonstrations against the busing of black children to schools in white neighborhoods. In the city that had done so much to advance the cause of civil rights, a group of Ku Klux Klan members arrived last week to stir up more trouble, as did a contingent of neo-Nazi white supremacists from Virginia...
...WGBH-TV, the local public broadcast outlet, because station managers considered it to be inflammatory. Editors at WCVB-TV deleted from a film clip a shot of a white student making rude gestures in the presence of black children. A story about the arrival of a Ku Klux Klan officer in Boston that appeared in an early edition of the Evening Globe last Thursday was missing in later editions...
...often displays "real bad form," Program Coordinator Debi Amos personally supervises the telecasting but says, "I can't stop her because I have no law or rules to stop her with." That dilemma is not unique. In Reading last year there were two programs by the Ku Klux Klan...
...referred to by other Negroes as H.N.l.C.s (Head Nigger in Charge); they are assigned to public relations jobs or marketing to black customers but are isolated from real decision making. Yet quite a few blacks are climbing up the corporate ladder. In central Indiana, where the Ku Klux Klan once marauded, three blacks have risen to high management positions at the Cummins Engine Co. of Columbus. There are so many black bankers in Atlanta that they scarcely stir much interest any more, though eyebrows lifted when William Allison, a black antipoverty administrator, was recently named to the prestigious board...