Word: klan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cook was questioned by police for 45 minutes after officials at the bank where he wanted to open an account reported that he planned to rob it. In New York City a rumor that a soft drink sold in poor neighborhoods had been secretly manufactured by the Ku Klux Klan to make blacks sterile worked so well that sales plummeted 70%. And a University of Chicago survey of racial attitudes found that 3 out of 4 whites believe black and Hispanic people are more likely than whites to be lazy, less intelligent, less patriotic and more prone to violence...
...that his lawyer was living with the prosecutor. A Florida man discovered that his public defender was a deputy sheriff. In Georgia, Eddie Lee Ross was defended by a white attorney who referred to Ross as a "nigger" and had been the Imperial Wizard of the local Ku Klux Klan for 50 years. Ross now awaits the electric chair...
Tifft and Jones root the Binghams in Southern traditions, from the mythmaking of genteel poverty to the brute force of the Klan, and sidle up to intriguing questions about the morality of inheriting vast fortunes and the special duties of media owners. But the core story is the mid-1980s sale of all Bingham companies for $448 million by Barry Bingham Sr., then 79. His son and namesake unsurprisingly felt that an adult lifetime of corporate devotion entitled him to the lion's share of control. Two wayward sisters, whom Barry Jr. had disenfranchised, equally unsurprisingly felt entitled to more...
...things in life have nothing to do with party," said Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer last week after abandoning the Democrats for the G.O.P. The move could save his political neck in a three-way re-election race next fall against Republican State Representative David Duke, an ex-Ku Klux Klan leader, and former Governor Edwin Edwards...
When Bridget Kerrigan pinned up her flag in her dorm room window two weeks ago, she perhaps did not anticipate that so many Harvard students would associate her flag with centuries of brutal lynchings and dehumanization. That the flag is the symbol of choice for the Ku Klux Klan, and a symbol which few southern Blacks can embrace with pride, may have escaped her and the others currently displaying the flag. But now that so many students have clearly delineated this for Kerrigan and the others, how can they be unaware of what their continued display of the Confederate flag...