Word: klan
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Edgar Ray Killen called himself a Baptist minister, but he worshipped in the church of the Ku Klux Klan. So when Killen, a native of Philadelphia, Miss., became his local Klan's Kleagle (a top commander) in the 1960s, he finally felt ordained with genuine power--and he allegedly used it to recruit and organize more than a dozen Klansmen in the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers...
...murder charges. And most, including Killen, beat federal civil rights--violation charges in a 1967 trial in which one member of the all-white jury insisted she could never convict a man of God like the Preacher. One of the men who was convicted, Sam Bowers-- the Neshoba County Klan's Imperial Wizard--later said in a prison interview that he was "quite delighted to have the main instigator of the entire affair," meaning Killen, "walk out of the courtroom a free...
FANNIE CHANEY, mother of civil rights worker James Chaney, when asked for her reaction to the indictment last week of Edgar Ray Killen for the 1964 Ku Klux Klan murders of her son and Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman...
DIED. BOBBY FRANK CHERRY, 74, former Ku Klux Klan member convicted in 2002 for the deadly 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.; of cancer; at the Kilby Correctional Facility near Montgomery. The attack, which followed the desegregation of Birmingham's schools and for which two of Cherry's associates were also convicted, killed four black girls...
...state that prides itself on producing moderate politicians who work easily and congenially with both parties, David Vitter, 43, Louisiana's newly elected Republican Senator, stands out. A staunch conservative who broke into politics in 1991 when he won the state house seat vacated by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, Vitter quickly made a reputation as a loner and political bomb thrower. He peppered Governor Edwin Edwards with ethics complaints, led the successful fight for term limits in the state legislature and exposed a cozy perk by which lawmakers secured Tulane scholarships for favorite constituents. When Vitter...