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Word: klan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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SCOTLAND, Conn.--Flames from a 20-ft, tall burning cross licked the night sky above this small farming town Saturday, as the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held their first open rally in New England since the turn of the century amid angry counterprotests and heavy police security...

Author: By James G. Hershberg and William E. Mckibben, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Klan Burns Cross In Connecticut | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

Outside the tightly guarded rolling field where the whites-only rally took place, Connecticut state police arrested nine people and reported eight injured after a series of brief but violent skirmishes between Klan supporters and opponents...

Author: By James G. Hershberg and William E. Mckibben, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Klan Burns Cross In Connecticut | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

Several hundred anti-Klan protesters shouting "Ku Klux Klan, Scum of the Land" and "Power to the Workers, Death to the Klan" marched to within a quarter- 9be the equivalent of a $14 million program in this country. The Canadian program gives direct subsidies to thousands of low and middle income homeowners to help them slash their fuel bills. The American program of tax incentives benefits only the rich. To take a tax credit, you have to spend money first. Of the less then 10 per cent of Americans who claimed tax credits for conservations purposes, more than...

Author: By James G. Hershberg and William E. Mckibben, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Klan Burns Cross In Connecticut | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...year--is being held hostage in Iran. The Supreme Court has ruled that the government won't pay for the poor's abortions. Harper's magazine has gone away. And in California, the largest Congressional district in the country may send a member of the Ku Klux Klan to Capitol Hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Rockets' Red Glare | 7/4/1980 | See Source »

...until late last year had been known as the Workers Viewpoint Organization. Though W.V.O. members had been trying to organize textile workers, most of whom are black, in and around Greensboro, the first stir of trouble came last July in China Grove, N.C., when two W.V.O. workers invaded a Klan rally and burned a Confederate flag. When the W.V.O. organized a "Death to the Klan" rally and dared their enemies to appear, their enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Dare That Ignited a Slaughter | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

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