Word: klan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coles: Well, how about one of the chiefs of the Klan who was arrested a while back and went through the process you describe-and as a result went to jail? Would you argue that he perhaps should have taken to the underground...
...agree to differ on that, maybe from the point of view of a certain risk that I am willing to take in regard to those young people -a risk that I would be much less willing to take in regard to something as long-term as the Klan. But there is always danger in taking these risks, and the only way in which I can keep reasonably free of that danger is by saying in public and to myself that the Weatherman ideology (for instance) is going to meet up with people who are going to be very harshly...
...voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 the first time around, changed his mind and voted for the final version, and was reelected. He was assigned to the House Un-American Activities Committee and then startled its members by calling for an investigation of the Ku Klux Klan...
Such punishment dates to the twelfth century, when miscreant Crusaders serving under Richard Coeur de Lion were doused with hot pitch and then feathered. It has since been associated with America's Ku Klux Klan, but the fact is that the I.R.A. routinely used it through the 1930s. Disturbed by the rising crime in Falls Road, where the predominantly Protestant police force rarely dares to tread, the I.R.A. decided to revive the punishment for lawbreakers. So did a more militant "provisional" faction of the underground army, which sprang up during the 1969 rioting throughout Northern Ireland...
...garb at the typewriter, he wrote an outspoken column for the Houston Post. Reaction was angry. Twenty-three Houston priests denounced his preconvention column as irresponsible troublemaking. Black radicals within the church were so offended by Kinsolving's attacks (he has compared black caucuses to the Ku Klux Klan) that...